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“...3o8 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
the harbour behind this fort that de Grasse’s fleet lay
before it sailed to meet defeat but not dishonour in the
Battle of the Saints in 1782 (see page 244) and it was
this fort whose walls Captain Robert Faulknor scaled
on March 20th, 1794.1 His Majesty’s ships Asia and
Zebra (Captain Faulknor) were ordered to stand in
towards the harbour. Both did so; but three times i
the Asia veered round. So the Zebra went on alone.
Captain Faulknor, seeing that he stood no chance of being
seconded by the Asia, and being all this time under a dreadful 1
fire from Fort Louis, boldly pushed in towards the fort, still
reserving his fire till he came close to the walls of it; and then
running his ship aground, plying his small arms and great guns, 1
he drove the enemy from thence, and leaping into a boat scaled j
the ramparts. Seeing the Zebra go in, all the boats with scaling ;
ladders, attended by the gunboats, seemed to fly towards the 1
scene of action. Those from...”
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“...468 INDEX
" Arabian Coast,” British Gui-
ana, 372, 381
Arakaka, 384
Arawak Indians, 6, 285, 313,
326, 353
Arboussier, Usine d’, 301
Arecibo River, 325
Arecuna Indians, 6
Arima, in, 115, 135, 140
Aripero, 443
Arnold, William, tomb of, 107
Arouca, 115, 135
Arrowroot, 42, 182, 187
Artemisa, 354
Aruba, 333, 335
Aruka River, 374
Asia, 308
Asphalt, 112, and see Pitch
Lake
“ Aspinall ” pan, 437
Aspinwall, W. H., 418, 421
Assiento, the, 7, 106
Assistant, H.M. Brig, 187
Associated West Indian Cham-
bers of Commerce, 446 ,
Atares, 345
Atherton, Gertrude, 18, 229,
322
Athol Island, 68
Atlantis, 28
“ At Last." See Kingsley,
Charles.
Aurora, 372
Austin, Bishop, Primate of
West Indies, 377, 380
Austin, Professor, 377
Austin’s Bay, 102
Avila, Pedro de, 418
Avocado pear, 22
Ayuntamiento, the, 348
Ayscue, Sir George, 73
Azores, the, 28
Baal, Robert, 405
Bacchante, Cruise of H.M.S.,
45. 86, 92, 107, 133, 140,
163
Bacon, John, R.A., his statu-
ary, 264, 276, 277, 278,
285
Bahamas, The, 50-70
Accommodation...”
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