Santo Domingo: Past and Present, with a Glance at HaytiHarper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1873 - 511 pages |
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American annexation appears APPENDATORY arrived authorities Azua Baez bank beautiful Cabral called Cape Francois Cape Samana cattle chief Cibao climate coast coffee colony colour Columbus command Commissioner Cotuy Cristophe Cuba cultivation Dessalines Dominican English entirely famous favour France French Geffrard gold Gonaives Government Governor hammock harbour Hayti hills horses immense inhabitants Isabella journey known La Vega labour land large number Manzanillo miles Milot mines Monte Cristo Monte Cristo range mountain mulattoes native nature negro Neyba officers Ozama river party plain plantations planters population port Port-au-Prince possession President principal Puerto Plata republic revolution ride river road ruins Samana Samana Bay Santiago savanna seems seen shore side slaves soon Spain Spaniards Spanish St Domingo city stream superb tion to-day tobacco Tortuga Toussaint town trees troops tropical United Vega vessels village woods Yaqui
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Page 470 - ... mine, and soil of any of the West India Islands. Its possession by us will in a few years build up a coastwise commerce of immense magnitude, which will go far toward restoring to us our lost merchant marine.
Page 7 - So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, " that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world a better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile ; and though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.
Page 470 - San Domingo will become a large consumer of the products of Northern farms and manufactories. The cheap rate at which her citizens can be furnished with food, tools, and machinery will make it necessary that...
Page 469 - I now firmly believe that the moment it is known that the United States have entirely abandoned the project of accepting as a part of its territory the island of San Domingo a free port will be negotiated for by European nations in the Bay of Samana.
Page 470 - Twice we must, as it were, pass through foreign countries to get, by sea, from Georgia, to the west coast of Florida. San Domingo, with a stable government, under which her immense resources can be developed, will give remunerative wages to tens of thousands of laborers not now upon the island.
Page 194 - Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory opening in the west To golden climes and islands of the blest; And human voices, on the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there...
Page 470 - The acquisition of San Domingo is desirable because of its geographical position. It commands the entrance to the Caribbean Sea and the Isthmus transit of commerce.