The Sugar Islands
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From No Quarter (Cassell, 1932): The Buccaneer.
From Most Women (Cassell, 1931): Obeah II.
From House & Garden, November 1956: Saba.
From Holiday Magazine : Antigua.
From Where the Clocks Chime Twice (Cassell, 1952): The U.S. Virgin Islands, An Island To Be Explored, ‘Typical Dominica’.
1 The actual chica is a slightly different dance, somewhat similar to the Hula-Hula. The couples do not touch each other as they dance.
1 A road has now been built.
2 The French Line now makes a brief stop there.
3 His brother was the late Armour Archbold.
4 Since I wrote this piece, three of the people whom I met during this trip have committed suicide.
5 This prophecy has not been fulfilled.
6 If Dominica is now definitely in the black, it will probably lose its attraction for ‘the misfit’.
1 The pattern of government is altering every year. This is how it was in 1947.
1 The cocoa seeds are now, for the most part, polished by machinery, just as the treading of grapes has been abandoned.
1 At the moment planters are doing well.
1 Today there are very few idle young women. They nearly all have jobs of some kind.
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