Indies

Indians were sent out to become contract laborers on Malaya's rubber plantations, or to work as indentured serv-ants in the West Indies.

He also did not anticipate running into a landmass before he reached the East Indies.

The only force able to interfere with a Japanese drive into the East Indies? The U. S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.

It was in search of Cathay and the Indies, their riches, that spurred Columbus to sail west, where he found a new continent instead.

Divers and fish hover over the remains of a ship that broke up on one of the many shallow reefs around the Cayman Islands, West Indies.

When Cortez arrived to what he believed to be the Indies, he discovered an enchanted world of resources and wide commercial practices.

Later buccaneers from the West Indies began to sail the waters of the Caribbean Sea and stole from any ship that they found.

His mother was the daughter of French Huguenots who had settled in the West Indies. Her name was Rachel Lavien.

I shall begin like plenty of energetic men who have gone to the Indies young , without a penny , and have come back rich .

He spends the winter in the West Indies and summer in England, commuting back and forth like the migrating swallows.

During all his trips, Columbus explored islands and waterways, searching for a passage to the Indies.

He died still believing that he had found a new route to the East Indies.

Since then, he, as a member of the British Navy, was involved in the French West Indies fleet operations.

'You want somebody to send to the West Indies, you were saying, ' observed Mr Dombey, hurriedly.

Betel Either of two different plants that are widely used in combination for chewing purposes in southern Asia and the East Indies.

Pumpkin had been raised by the Indians centuries before Columbus reached the west Indies. They had baked it with honey.

But Columbus called these islands the Indies because he thought he had finally reached Asia (and the East Indies).

an island state in the West Indies; an independent state within the British Commonwealth.

HMV's logo famously shows a terrier listening intently to a gramophone; even the indies hope the top dog regains its form.

All the land was under the control of the Dutch East Indies Company and anyone caught selling land, however small, was executed.

The couple have taken their three sons plus a nanny and bodyguards to an island in the British West Indies.

A patient who died in the UK from Strongyloides infection, which he had contracted in the West Indies, is described.

Alexander Hamilton, truly a remarkable young man, was penniless and family-less when he immigrated to New York in 1772 from the West Indies.

Photo of the Day: Best of March 2008 A rainbow arcs over trees blooming on a hillside in the West Indies island of Dominica.

He came to the West Indies when he was very young and plundered the Spanish settlements of Puerto del Principe, Puerto Bello, and Maracaibo.

And among the little indies: ponies for everyone!

The British West Indies, or the Bahamas, are a portion of same that may be seen in the present.

The name "Indies" was given to the islands by Christopher Columbus.

tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood.

Around 90% of the alcohol consumed by the American colonies was British rum, imported from the West Indies .

Admiring friends offered to carry him at their own cost to the Yellowstone River, --to the West Indies, --to South America.

The British and other Europeans who went out to the West Indies to get rich usually died first.

The raids, Chennault insisted, would forestall Japanese expansion into Malaya , Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.

An island of the U. S. Virgin Islands in the West Indies east of Puerto Rico.

A country of the West Indies comprising the western part of the island of Hispaniola and two offshore islands.

popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar.

I went down to Ramsgate for a week with a friend last September, just after my return from the West Indies.

Why were recruitment centres set up in the West Indies in the 1950s?

On the outward voyage the ship will call in at the west indies.

Barbados is the easternmost of the West Indies in an island nation.

indies have become expert at exploiting competition between states and countries, which lavish subsidies on them.

So what I'd prefer, rather than go for some big blockbuster after this, is to build my career up slowly, with some indies, things like that.

An arm of the western Atlantic Ocean bounded by the coasts of Central and South America and the West Indies .

the West Indies and southern Europe were important trading partners, especially as markets for American exports.

a tropical evergreen tree of the myrtle family native to the East Indies but cultivated elsewhere.

Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company and included the ships of Abel Tasman.

Now I've come back to the indies because I got on that treadmill and I couldn't get off for a while.

Paper birds festoon a street during the Santiago de Cuba carnaval, in Cuba, the largest island in the West Indies.

I was young and easily impressed, so when I saw her in the West Indies, beautiful and elegantly dressed, I thought I loved her.

silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control.

A country in the Windward Islands of the West Indies comprising the island of Grenada and the southern Grenadines.

Peppercorns are the dried berries of Piper nigrum, grown in the West Indies, Sumatra, and other eastern countries.

Interesting to note: I recently learnt of a species of oyster, in the West Indies that can climb (mangrove) trees!

Before I left Mozambique to follow those explorers toward the Indies, Ihad exposed 143 rolls of film just on the woman of the island.

But where they were? Columbus was certain they had foundone of the islands of the Indies, just south of Japan or China.

Photo Gallery: Coral Reefs Orange cup coral clusters on a pier piling on Bonaire Island in the West Indies.

I review authors from any African countries, French West Indies or in diasporas, black literature at large.

The capital of Barbados, in the West Indies. It was founded by the British in1628. Population, 7, 466.

A nocturnal, forest-dwelling wild pig(Babyrousa babyrussa) of the East Indies, having long, upward-curving tusks in the male.

Pimento (commonly called allspice) is the ground fruit of Eugenia pimenta, grown in Jamaica and the West Indies .

After the expedition reached the West Indies, many of the men deserted.

A country of the southeast West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean off northeast Venezuela.

In and around Mexico and the West Indies nature's swarms are astonishing for their scale and their variety.

The West Indies are a large group of islands lying between North America and South America .

An island and overseas department of France in the Windward Islands of the West Indies.

It is a rubber-like product made by reacting rapeseed oil from the Dutch East Indies [Indonesia] with sulfur chloride.

Intrepid oarsmen and women begin the Atlantic Rowing Race, from the Canaries to the West Indies.

The origin of this variety is in South America or the West Indies.

Themongoose has so far caused the extinction of 12 reptile and amphibianspecies from Puerto Rico, the West Indies and Jamaica.

a republic in the West Indies on the island of Hispaniola; the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.

fern of West Indies and South America having fronds with bright golden-yellow undersides.

Africa borders it on the west, and Australia and the East Indies are to the east. Asia lies to the north.

About three million have came to live and find work since world war second. They are mainly from the West Indies, India and Pakistan.

We can ignore neither the wealth of the Indies nor the realities of the immediate needs of our cities, our citizens, or our civics .

Dutchmen can be found trading in the Indies, where they give the locals a run for their money, and the Caribbean.

A country occupying the easternmost island of the West Indies.

tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit.

Orange cup coral clusters on a pier piling on Bonaire Island in the West Indies .

It appears that many Mac developers, perhaps most of them, are solo indies producing their own products.

It is a rubber-like product made by reacting rape-seed oil from the Dutch East indies with sulfur chloride.

This came after the cancelling of tours by two other cricketing powers, Australia and the West Indies.

The Star apple is a fruit native to the low-lying areas of Central America and the West Indies.

By sailing with these winds, Columbus hoped to arrive in the Indies in about three weeks.

The West Indies, apart from the Bahamas, are commonly divided into two parts.

He is also famous for introducing the tea plant to India (from China) and breadfruit to the West Indies(from Tahiti).

spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies.

Alexander Hamilton, truly a remarkable young man, was penniless and family-lesswhen he immigrated to New York in 1772 fromthe West Indies.

Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer and made money, but died young.

1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies.

His name's Mason, sir, and he comes from the West Indies.

Cyril Soolum was interested in art during high school in Trinidad, West Indies.

because he was sure that he had reached the Indies.

The pirate ships in the West Indies were armed with heavy ordnance .

It is from Haiti and other islands in the West Indies and is not related to true sandalwood.

Can you hold on to lands in the New World, or establish a rich trading empire in the Indies?

Welcome to Four Seasons Resort Nevis, West Indies.

My parents are from two tiny islands in the Caribbean West Indies.

Chen has headed the Climate Studies Group at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

a British colony in the West_ Indies about 300 miles north of Venezuela; a popular resort area.

Yucca are native to North and Central America and the West Indies.

He's into action-adventure flicks; you're all about indies.

Yet the future might just belong to agile indies and freelancers, not giant corporations.

1 genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies.

Creole: n. A person of European descent born in the West Indies or Spanish America.

very large boa of tropical America and West Indies.

While the house guests are staying at Thornfield, Rochester receives a mysterious caller ---a Mr. Mason from the West Indies.

According to Columbus's own reckoning he was near the Indies , so he called the Island people los Indios.

Page 72 Netherlands West Indies, Guyana or Surinam and Curacao.

a buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English.

After his death she sailed to the West Indies.

of southeast Asia and East Indies; the largest snake in the world.

That's why the islands were named "Indies" .

This is section the procedure which designs indies of mid- and small-scale enterprise.

There were already islands called "the East Indies" in the Pacific Ocean.

About 12 species: disjunct distribution in W Africa, tropical Asia, Madagascar, South America, and West Indies; one species in China.

'I'm a lawyer, sir. I have a certificate here proving that you married Bertha Mason in the West Indies fifteen years ago. '

He was probably a privateer in the West Indies until 1716.

Last year, George Reinhart saw an ad for a managing director of the privately owned island of Mustique in the West Indies.

But the real question for Christopher Columbus was: How do I best get to the West Indies?

At last he saw land: a group of islands now called the West Indies.

Teacher: What are some products of the West Indies?

Before they can marry, Paul must work in the West Indies, where the slaves are proving unruly.

I am reading a book about the West Indies.

He got into debt, ran away in 1727 or 1728, went to the West Indies, and died there.

The lake is good for nothing except sea-fowl, herons, and oysters, and forms such a place as they call in the Indies a lagoon;

Hong Kong Indies' Film Video Multi-Media Newsletter 1-13 was launched by Hong Kong Arts Centre, Videotage and Ying e Chi.

Selective sorption of potassium in a weathering sequence of volcanic ash soils from Guadeloupe, French West Indies

rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers;

small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States;

after that would come the turn of the lamplighters of russia and the indies ;

West Indies College of Naturopathic Medicine and Surgery

English Company Trading to the East Indies

Atlantic Gulf West Indies Warranty

the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre

A History of Organized Labor in the English-Speaking West Indies