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Curacao, Dutch West Indies
- Creator:
- Reilly, William Benedict
- Publication Date:
- 1898
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 68 p. : ill., port. ; 26 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...our swift ocean racer glided into warm-
er seas. “ We’ve sneaked past Hatteras
without them knowing it,” the Rev. Mr.
Smith remarked, noting the calmness of
the sea off this usually tempestuous cape,
and so it was. The trip was delightfully
uneventful, and...”
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Curacao, Dutch West Indies
- Creator:
- Reilly, William Benedict
- Publication Date:
- 1898
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 68 bl. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...our swift ocean racer glided into warm-
er seas. “ We’ve sneaked past Hatteras
without them knowing it,” the Rev. Mr.
Smith remarked, noting the calmness of
the sea off this usually tempestuous cape,
and so it was. The trip was delightfully
uneventful, and...”
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The pocket guide to the West Indies
- Creator:
- Aspinall, Algernon Edward, 1871-1952
- Publisher:
- Stanford ( London )
- Publication Date:
- 1907
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- XX, 316 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Guidebooks -- West Indies
- Spatial Coverage:
- West Indies
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...ten or twelve months
in the West Indies, and tourists therefore need
feel no apprehension on this score. The West
Indies are remarkably free from infectious diseases
common in temperate climes, and also from those
ailments which are commonly associated in the...”
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The pocket guide to the West Indies
- Creator:
- Aspinall, Algernon Edward, 1871-1952
- Publisher:
- Duckworth ( London )
- Publication Date:
- 1910
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- XVI, 317 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- New and rev. ed.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Guidebooks -- West Indies
- Spatial Coverage:
- West Indies
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...bitten by these objectionable insects and to sleep
invariably under a mosquito-net where mosquitoes exist.
The West Indies are remarkably free from infectious
diseases common in temperate climes, and also from those
ailments which are commonly associated in the...”
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The praecolumbian and early postcolumbian aboriginal population of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire
- Creator:
- Josselin de Jong, J.P.B. de
- Publication Date:
- 1918
- Type:
- Book
- Source Institution:
- Universiteit Leiden
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...About the method of excavation followed we are not informed. In one of his letters
(August 24, 1883; reg. n. 160) v. Koolwijk remarks: Owing to the drought the soil is
very hard; the so-called sjap with which the digging is done is very unsuitable, so that
much...”
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Daniel De Leon : the man and his work : a symposium
- Creator:
- Socialist Labor Party (New York) -- National Executive Committee
- Daniel de Leon, the man and his work
- Publication Date:
- 1920
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 2 dl in 1 bd (85, 177, XV p) : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Universiteit Leiden
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“... It died
before him and burled him in its ruins.
His death does not tear a gap.......
It IS hard to say which is the more remarkable in this
performance, its animus, or, its stupidity,real or pretended.
It IS certainly superfluous to lose one word as to the...”
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Curaçao : the key to the West-Indies
- Publication Date:
- 1921
- Type:
- Book
- Source Institution:
- Universiteit Leiden
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...on fresh water, which
at all times is available in abundance.
In this connection passing mention
should be made of Curagaos remarkable
progress in the shipbuilding industry,
which is destined to play an important
part in the industrial development of the
...”
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Venezuela : a commercial and industrial handbook : with a chapter on the Dutch West Indies
- Creator:
- Bell, P.L
- Publisher:
- Department of commerce. Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce ( Washington, DC )
- Publication Date:
- 1922
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- xv, 472 p. : ill., krt., tab. ; 24 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Economic conditions -- Venezuela -- 1918-
- Commerce -- Venezuela
- Economic conditions -- Netherlands Antilles
- Commerce -- Netherlands Antilles
- Spatial Coverage:
- Venezuela
- Netherlands Antilles
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...markets to an enormous
extent. But representatives of European business houses held their
ground in Venezuela during the war remarkably well; many have re-
turned to the country since peace has been declared, eager to take up
the old relations and to develop...”
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The pocket guide to the West Indies : British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main and the Panama canal
- Creator:
- Aspinall, Algernon Edward, 1871-1952
- Publication Date:
- 1923
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- X, 479 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- [new and rev. ed.]
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Guidebooks -- West Indies
- Spatial Coverage:
- West Indies
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...Sea is entered, and
tourists will note the remarkable Gulf weed, which
floats in a vast eddy or central pool of the Atlantic
between the Gulf Stream and the equatorial current.
The Gulf Stream, the most remarkable of the
worlds ocean currents, is formed by...”
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The pocket guide to the West-Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main and the Panama canal
- Creator:
- Aspinall, Algernon Edward, 1871-1952
- Publisher:
- Sifton, Spraed & Co ( London )
- Publication Date:
- 1927
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- XIV, 493, XXIV p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Guidebooks -- West Indies
- Spatial Coverage:
- West Indies
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...371
XVII. The Spanish Main ... . 400
XVIII. The Panama Canal . ; 417
XIX. Some West Indian Industries . . 434
XX. Concluding Remarks .... 448
APPENDIX
I. Steamship Communication . . . 452
II. Dollars and Sterling Tables . . 466
Index . .......................”
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Handbook of the Netherlands and overseas territories
- Creator:
- Nederbragt, J.A, 1880-1953
- Ministery of Foreign Affairs (Nederland) -- Economic Section
- Publisher:
- Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Economic Section ( The Hague )
- Publication Date:
- 1931
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- VIII, 405 p. : krt. ; 19 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...Valk),
Jordaan, Cornelis Veth and others.
After a long period of inactivity in this field, the
Netherlands is witnessing a remarkable revival of the
Sculptural Art, inauogurated by artist such as
Charles van Wijk and Toon Dupuis. Especially to our
architects...”
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The pocket guide to the West-Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, Bermuda, the Spanish Main, Surinam and the Panama canal
- Creator:
- Aspinall, Algernon Edward, 1871-1952
- Publisher:
- Sifton, Spraed & Co ( London )
- Publication Date:
- 1931
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- XIV, 500 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
- Edition:
- New and rev. ed.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Guidebooks -- Suriname
- Spatial Coverage:
- Suriname
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...The Spanish Main and Surinam . . 396
XVIII. The Panama Canal .... 416
XIX. Some West Indian Industries . . 433
XX. Concluding Remarks .... 445
APPENDIX
I. Steamship Communications . . 448
II. Air Transport Services . . . 464
III. Dollars and Sterling Tables...”
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The geology of Aruba
- Creator:
- Westermann, J.H
- Publisher:
- Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatij. ( Utrecht )
- Publication Date:
- 1932
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 129, III p., [3] bl. pl. : krt. ; 30 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Universiteit Leiden
- Subject Keyword:
- Geology -- Aruba
- Spatial Coverage:
- Aruba
- Genre:
- theses (marcgt)
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“... It is a remarkable fact, that in the pyroxene-hooibergites, generally,
the amount of hornblende in the contact-zone increases at the cost of pyroxene; even in
some rocks, the contactzone does no more contain pyroxene. It is also very remarkable,
that wel...”
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Geology and paleontology of Bonaire (D.W.I.)
- Creator:
- Pijpers, Petrus Johannus
- Publisher:
- Oosthoek's Uitgevers-mij ( Utrecht )
- Publication Date:
- 1933
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 105 p. : ill., krt. ; 30 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Universiteit Leiden
- Subject Keyword:
- Geology -- Bonaire
- Paleontology -- Bonaire
- Spatial Coverage:
- Bonaire
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...Rincon (W., NE. and SW. of Rincon). We
called it the Rincon formation. It lies unconformably upon the Washikemba
formation. Remarkable is the occurrence of pebbles of foreign rocks in the
Rincon formation, being granodiorites and granodiorite aplites (see Chapter...”
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Geology and paleontology of Bonaire (D.W.I.)
- Creator:
- Pijpers, Petrus Johannus
- Publisher:
- Oosthoek ( Utrecht )
- Publication Date:
- 1933
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 103 p. : ill., krt. ; 30 cm. +
- Source Institution:
- Universiteit Leiden
- Subject Keyword:
- Geology -- Bonaire
- Paleontology -- Bonaire
- Bonaire
- Proefschriften (vorm)
- Spatial Coverage:
- Bonaire
- Genre:
- Proefschriften (vorm) (gtt)
- theses (marcgt)
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...Rincon (W., NE. and SW. of Rincon). We
called it the Rincon formation. It lies unconformably upon the Washikemba
formation. Remarkable is the occurrence of pebbles of foreign rocks in the
Rincon formation, being granodiorites and granodiorite aplites (see Chapter...”
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De geologische literatuur over of van belang voor Nederlands Guyana (Suriname) en de Nederlandse Westindische eilanden
- Creator:
- Steenhuis, J.F, 1883-1958
- Publisher:
- Boek- en Kunstdrukkerij v/h Mouton ( 's-Gravenhage )
- Publication Date:
- 1934
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 80 p. : ; 29 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Geology -- Bibliography -- Suriname
- Geology -- Bibliography -- West Indies
- Geology -- Bibliography -- South America
- Geology -- Bibliography -- Central America
- Geology -- Bibliography -- Mexico
- Spatial Coverage:
- Suriname
- West Indies
- South America
- Central America
- Mexico
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- Dutch
“...Quart. J. Geol. Soc. Lond., 19, 409
456, pi. XIIIXVI, 1863; part II: ibidem,
20, 2045, pi. IIV, 1864.
Contents: A. Preliminary remarks; I.
Introduction; II. Geology of Antigua; B.
Enumaration of the species; I. Antigua;
II. San Domingo; III. Jamaica; IV. Mont-...”
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Marginal languages: a sociological survey of the Creole languages and trade jargons
- Creator:
- Reinecke, John E, 1904-1982
- Publication Date:
- 1937
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 2 dl. (X, 880 p.) : krt. ; 20 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Creole dialects
- Languages, Mixed
- Creooltalen
- Pidgintalen
- Sociolinguïstiek
- Genre:
- Proefschriften (vorm) (gtt)
- theses (marcgt)
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“... and we find, if
put f8117 new formations, numerous instances of old material
tha« °-in®w uses. It is scarcely necessary to remark that
eae languages are not of mixed blood, half African and half
Sven f^Lu» -languages do not mingle so readily as races.
Wofrt...”
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Marginal languages: a sociological survey of the Creole languages and trade jargons
- Creator:
- Reinecke, John E, 1904-1982
- Publication Date:
- 1937
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- 2 dl. (X, 880 p.) : krt. ; 20 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Subject Keyword:
- Creole dialects
- Languages, Mixed
- Creooltalen
- Pidgintalen
- Sociolinguïstiek
- Genre:
- Proefschriften (vorm) (gtt)
- theses (marcgt)
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“... calmly remarks, 'comprise about
all the'pronouns used, and the student need not bother about
genders.'9
One of course notices a bit of levity in the quotations from
Hinson's work, and more than a bit in Leland's commentary. But
48 Island remarked, the pidgins...”
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[Silver Peg's province]
- Publisher:
- Standard oil company ( New York )
- Publication Date:
- 1937
- Type:
- Book
- Format:
- p. 22-23. : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Source Institution:
- Leiden University
- Genre:
- non-fiction (marcgt)
- Language:
- English
“...one of its most valuable chan-
nels for making new friends.
F. B. Deane, president of the
Club, presided and in his opening
remarks recalled the continuing sup-
port given to the organization by
the Board and emphasized the in-
creasingly important need the...”
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