A History of the West Indies by Thomas Coke

Author:Thomas Coke [Coke, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9780829008517
Google: uIFmPgAACAAJ
Publisher: Ardent Media Incorporated
Published: 1939-06-15T16:02:33+00:00

* Vol. I. page 324.

* The above date, mentioned by Mr. Rainsford, must evidently have been inserted by mistake. Columbus did not discover land till October, 1492, and no engagement took place till 1495.

† The Alco was the native dog of the New Hemisphere, nor does it seem to have differed greatly from that of the Old, except that it possessed not the power of barking. The natives of Hispaniola, like those of Otaheite, fattened them with care, and accounted their flesh a great delicacy.”—B. Edwards, Vol. I. p. 116.

* See Vol. I. p. 262.

† The flesh of those Bulls, which were pursued by the ancient Buccaniers, was sometimes seasoned with Orange juice and Jamaica pepper, At other times it was dried in the smoke which their fires occasioned, in a place called Buccans, and hence the name Buccaniers.

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