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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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in,6 82 WITH spe:ake:r cannon through the tropics. So on that memorable day, continued Froude, was theEngUsh Empire saved. Peace followed, but it was peacewith honor. The American colonies were lost, but Englandkept her West Indies; her flag still floated over Gibraltar,the hostile strength of Europe all combined had failed totwist Britannias ocean sceptre from her; she sat downmaimed and bleeding, but the wreath had not been torn fromher brow; she was still sovereign of the seas. It was at Saint Pierre during the war of the rebellion thatthe Alabama, the famous rebel blockade runner, wasblockaded, watched by the Iroquois. It seemed impossiblefor her to escape, but under the guidance of a native pilotwho knew the deep places and the unmarked reefs; she tookthe chances and succeeded in making her way to sea. Therewere no searchlights in those days, or the movement wouldhave failed. The Alabama was saved only to fall a victimto the Kearsarge in an open sea fight off the coast of France.
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STREET SCENE, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS. CHAPTER IV. BARBADOS. A Congested lyittle England—Emancipation and Its Consequences—Women Coaling Ships—Labor of Men and Women Compared—Relations of Whites and Blacks—Problem of the Consulates—Coral Rock Roads—Englands Big Stick—The Work of thePolyps—Visit to the Governor—The Cannon Ball and Its Uses—Tawneys Souvenir of Columbus—The Widow on Horseback—Exportations to Panama—Curious Debate in the Assembly—Canal Labor Criticised—The Jeweler and the Tariff—AmericanCapital Wanted—A Market Place Episode—Novelties and theColor Craze—A Diver Who Dared—Songs That Tortured. Off to the east of the Caribbean group, as it were theoutpost of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, lies the inter-esting little Island of Barbados. The name is venerablewith antiquity, and in a vague sort of way I had felt thatBarbados was an important place. Once upon a time it was the headquarters of the LesserAntilles, and its Governor-General w

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