the West 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A country occupying the easternmost island of the West Indies.

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

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

After his death she sailed to the West Indies.

'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.

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