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“... of interest, while on Norman Island the old Pirates’
Caves should be visited. They can be reached in small
boats. A few years ago an iron chest containing
treasure was found in the caves.
An island of sentimental interest is Dead-man’s Chest,
immortalised by R. L. Stevenson in ‘‘Treasure Island,"
though he never visited it:
Fifteen men on The Dead Man’s Chest—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum !
This rock, when seen from a distance, appears a flat surface,
almost level with the surface of the water; but on a nearer
approach, it assumes a regular shape, which has been compared
by one of the Spanish Fathers who first visited the country, to
a table with a coffin lying upon it; whence it has its name, in
Spanish el Casa di Muerti, which means nothing more than a
coffin, but, literally translated, is the Dead-man’s chest, its
present English name.—Waller’s “Voyage in the West Indies,
1820.”
Describing the amenities of these islands in The West
India Committee Circular in 1921...”
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