Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Bind 178W. Blackwood & Sons, 1905 |
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Side 305
... TOBAGO . BY HUGH CLIFFORD , C.M.G. " There was an old man of Tobago Who lived on rice - pudding and sago . THE old nursery couplet had been ringing in my head all night , keeping step with the measured tramp of the screw , the two ...
... TOBAGO . BY HUGH CLIFFORD , C.M.G. " There was an old man of Tobago Who lived on rice - pudding and sago . THE old nursery couplet had been ringing in my head all night , keeping step with the measured tramp of the screw , the two ...
Side 306
... Tobago ! This lovely tropic isle is packed with history , for she has seen - days good and bad , many masters of many nationalities , ups and downs of fortune , wealth and poverty , prosperity and sore distress , glory and hu- miliation ...
... Tobago ! This lovely tropic isle is packed with history , for she has seen - days good and bad , many masters of many nationalities , ups and downs of fortune , wealth and poverty , prosperity and sore distress , glory and hu- miliation ...
Side 307
Of the earliest inhabitants of him , claimed Tobago as an Tobago nothing is known , and appanage of the English barely a trace remains . The crown . The latter sovereign doomed Carib race , which else- made a present of the island where ...
Of the earliest inhabitants of him , claimed Tobago as an Tobago nothing is known , and appanage of the English barely a trace remains . The crown . The latter sovereign doomed Carib race , which else- made a present of the island where ...
Side 308
... Tobago in 1654 , thought it prudent to acquiesce and to seek the protection of the Grand Monarque , from whose hands he received the title of Baron de Tobago . Under the protection of so powerful an overlord the hon- est Dutch merchants ...
... Tobago in 1654 , thought it prudent to acquiesce and to seek the protection of the Grand Monarque , from whose hands he received the title of Baron de Tobago . Under the protection of so powerful an overlord the hon- est Dutch merchants ...
Side 309
... Tobago , save as a means of " scoring off " the English , for possession of the island was suffered to pass once more to the Dutch , after the French had destroyed by fire all the buildings then ex- isting on its shores . Six years ...
... Tobago , save as a means of " scoring off " the English , for possession of the island was suffered to pass once more to the Dutch , after the French had destroyed by fire all the buildings then ex- isting on its shores . Six years ...
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