The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe, Volumes 3-4Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1892 |
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... British Honduras , is a colony of Great Britain , formed of the south - eastern portion of the Peninsula of Yucatan , and may be described as that portion of Guatemala bordering the shores of the Bay of Honduras . Its area is about ...
... British Honduras , is a colony of Great Britain , formed of the south - eastern portion of the Peninsula of Yucatan , and may be described as that portion of Guatemala bordering the shores of the Bay of Honduras . Its area is about ...
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... British territories vary , and are at all times very uncertain . The coolie system has , of course , been a very ... British Guiana presents a marked contrast to the absence of all these colonial necessaria vitæ in Jamaica . DUTCH GUIANA ...
... British territories vary , and are at all times very uncertain . The coolie system has , of course , been a very ... British Guiana presents a marked contrast to the absence of all these colonial necessaria vitæ in Jamaica . DUTCH GUIANA ...
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... British seamen , six Tahitian men , and twelve women of the same race . Concord among a band of such desperadoes was impossible , and accordingly within the next ten years all the Tahitian men , several of the women , and all the ...
... British seamen , six Tahitian men , and twelve women of the same race . Concord among a band of such desperadoes was impossible , and accordingly within the next ten years all the Tahitian men , several of the women , and all the ...
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