WEST INDIES.
A naval war in the immediate neighbourhood of Cuba will call to mind the stirring naval tales of Captain Marryat, as so many of the incidents he introduced into his stories had their origin in the <trugg'es fought in these waters. Co ibi.s day the map of the world b?ai-3 evidence of the parcelling up of these islands at the end of the war, a3 the Bahama islands, close to th ' north of Cuba are British ; to the ■inuth lie Hayti or St. Domingo an island once Spanish, bat now divided into two Republics ; then Spain holch the small island of ' Puerto Rico, t hen the French own the Leeward islands ; closely adjoining Great Britain holds the island of St. Lucia, the Windward islands, Barbadoes, and Trindad which latter island lies do c to ihe northern shore of Venezuela. . .
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Manawatu Herald, 26 April 1898, Page 2
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141WEST INDIES. Manawatu Herald, 26 April 1898, Page 2
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