Antigua and the Antiguans: a Full Account of the Colony and its Inhabitants from the Time of the Caribs to the Present Day, Interspersed with Anecdotes and Legends
Subtitle: Volume 1
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: August 14, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781402188626
Subjects: Mrs Flannig Antigua,antiguans,Caribs,colony,African Americans,Carib Indians,description,travel,slavery; History / Latin America; Travel / Africa
First sentence: THE Island of Antigua, one of the great Antilles, is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about twenty-five miles to the northeast of Montserrat, and forty miles north of Guadaloupe, in latitude seventeen degrees north, and longitude sixty-two degrees, or thereabouts, the measurement in these respects not being more exact than those of its length and breadth, which are variously stated at 21,20, and 18 miles for its length, and 21, 20, and 17, for its breadth.