 Esquivel," after the Spanish Governor of that name, who established it as a ship-building port. It possesses a fine harbour studded with little low cays and rocky islets.  A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica - Page 299by Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill - 1851 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jamaica - 1884 - 178 pages
...shipping port of the district It possesses a fine, commodious harbour, studded with little low cays or rocky islets, breaking the waste of water with...leave his country, and to visit, in the protection of the illustrious world-finder, the distant land of the wondrous strangers, of which he had heard such... | |
 | 1902 - 552 pages
...as a ship-building port. It possesses afine harbour etudded with little low cays and rocky islets. " This noble Bay, when Columbus discovered it, was inhabited...by thousands of Indians, the most intelligent and tho most civilized of all the aborigines of the Antilles that he had seen."* The port bas been reopened... | |
 | Jamaica - 1908 - 632 pages
...a ship-building port. It possesses a fine harbour atudded with little low cays and rocky islets. " This noble Bay, when Columbus discovered it, was inhabited...thousands of Indians, the most intelligent and the most civilized of all the aborigines of the Antilles that he had seen." — (Goase.J There is an Episcopal... | |
 | Jamaica - 1937 - 710 pages
...possesses a fine harbour studded with little low cays and rocky islets. When Columbus discovered it, it was inhabited by thousands of Indians, the most intelligent and the most civilised of nil the aborigines of the Antilles that he had seen. There are an Episcopal church and a Baptist chapel... | |
 | Jamaica - 1925 - 752 pages
...possesses a fine harbour studded with little low cays and rocky islets. When Columbus discovered it, it was inhabited by thousands of Indians, the most intelligent and the most civilized of all the aborigines of the Antilles that he had seen. There are an Episcopal church and... | |
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