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Leeward Islands   /lˈiwərd ˈaɪləndz/   Listen
Leeward Islands

noun
1.
A group of islands in the eastern West Indies.





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"Leeward Islands" Quotes from Famous Books



... demand for these is infinitely short of the demand for the salted beef, pork, and fish. Salted fish, (if the expression may be permitted in contrast with bread,) is the meat of all the lower ranks in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands. It is the meat of all the slaves in the West Indies. Nor is it disdained by persons in better condition. The North American colonies also furnishes the sugar colonies with salt from Turks' Island, ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various
... master us, yet they could not carry off the boat. Indeed, it was not much in my thoughts that we could be able to recover the ship; but my view was, that if they went away without the boat, I did not much question to make her again fit to carry us to the Leeward Islands. ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V3 • Charles H. Sylvester


Words linked to "Leeward Islands" :   St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Martin, Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles, Saint Martin, Saint Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, archipelago, Saint Maarten, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St. Maarten, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Caribees


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