Grenada, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Kitts - The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands - page 135

hopeless, and we were almost resigned to continuing by air when a sea captain from Anguilla appeared,
saying that he would take us for a reasonable sum. A bargain was struck, and we arranged to set sail
at two o'clock that afternoon, and reach St. Eustatius, if the wind continued favourable, in an hour or
two. Captain Fleming explained that his sloop had no engine, so we would have to rely on sail. His ap-
pearance—those deep black features of enormous length and the steel-rimmed glasses—had a strangely
studious cast for a man of the sea. You would have taken him for a vicar or a professor.
[1] The early history of many of the islands—especially Barbados—is a long catalogue of disputes and
lawsuits about their possession by English magnates; notably Lord Carlisle, Lord Marlborough and Lord
Willoughby of Parham.
[2] He spent a few days with the Governor de Bellair in 1700.
[3] The island was sold by Duparquet to a Comte de Cerillac, who sold it to the French Crown, under
which it continued until it became a colony of George III's in 1774.
[4] St. Lucia , Henry Breen, Longmans, 1844.
[5] There are several catches like this. Dominica receives the stress on the third syllable—eeka; Antigua
is pronounced Anteega; Saba like a cavalry sword; Grenada with the first a as ay , not ah .
[6] There is some doubt about this coincidence. Some authorities state that the Norman arrived two years
later than Warner.
[7] Quite unnecessarily, as the whole thing is down in Aspinall, including a few words which are broken
off the slab, but discovered by Sir Algernon in an eighteenth-century manuscript, and which are here in-
cluded.
[8] There were only a few of these.