excerpt from ''America and West Indies: November 1699, 11-20', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 17, 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698' pp. 516-536 (118 words)
excerpt from ''America and West Indies: November 1699, 11-20', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 17, 1699 and Addenda 1621-1698' pp. 516-536 (118 words)
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[The listening experience forms part of a long account of claims and counter-claims to Caribbean territories by the French, Dutch and English. The naval captain and explorer John Poyntz published a book proposing the purchase and colonisation of Tobago in 1683] Memorial of Captain John Poyntz, to the Council of Trade and Plantation, relating to the history of Tobago […] In 1678–1679 I made several voyages from Barbados to Tobago [and returned to Tobago around 1681] […]The Emperor of Trinidado having notice of my intentions for Tobago, observing two ships in Courlanders' Bay, concluded I was come. The Emperor and divers hundreds of his vassals, men, women and children, with music and flags and great rejoicings, came to welcome me to Tobago.
[The listening experience forms part of a long account of claims and counter-claims to Caribbean territories by the French, Dutch and English. The naval captain and explorer John Poyntz published a book proposing the purchase and colonisation of Tobago in 1683] Memorial of Captain John Poyntz, to the Council of Trade and Plantation, relating to the history of Tobago […] In 1678–1679 I made several voyages from Barbados to Tobago [and returned to Tobago around 1681] […]The Emperor of Trinidado having notice of my intentions for Tobago, observing two ships in Courlanders' Bay, concluded I was come. The Emperor and divers hundreds of his vassals, men, women and children, with music and flags and great rejoicings, came to welcome me to Tobago. |
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