The Sugar Islands
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Because of a reference to it in that august authority, I had long been anxious to visit the Dutch West Indian island, Saba. The reference is brief; but how it whets the imagination! Saba, I was informed, produced the finest boatmakers in the Caribbean, but since it has no beach, the boats had to be lowered over the side of the cliff. I was most curious to observe this industry.
Saba was, however, hard of access. Small as it is and a Dutch colony, there is no economic reason why the British and F...rench islands should maintain contact with it. Unless you were a yachtsman, the only way of getting there was from St. Kitts— itself a little off the map—in a thirty-five ton two-masted schooner, the Blue Peter, which made a weekly five-day tour of the Dutch Windward Islands to deliver mail. I had often seen Saba, shadowy on the horizon, a single cone-shaped mountain like Vesuvius, but I had failed to fit a visit there into my schedule. So when I wrote a comprehensive book about the West Indies, and came to Saba, I had to content myself with copying from the Encyclopaedia.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Because of a reference to it in that august authority, I had long been anxious to visit the Dutch West Indian island, Saba. The reference is brief; but how it whets the imagination! Saba, I was informed, produced the finest boatmakers in the Caribbean, but since it has no beach, the boats had to be lowered over the side of the cliff. I was most curious to observe this industry.
Saba was, however, hard of access. Small as it is and a Dutch colony, there is no economic reason why the British and F...rench islands should maintain contact with it. Unless you were a yachtsman, the only way of getting there was from St. Kitts— itself a little off the map—in a thirty-five ton two-masted schooner, the Blue Peter, which made a weekly five-day tour of the Dutch Windward Islands to deliver mail. I had often seen Saba, shadowy on the horizon, a single cone-shaped mountain like Vesuvius, but I had failed to fit a visit there into my schedule. So when I wrote a comprehensive book about the West Indies, and came to Saba, I had to content myself with copying from the Encyclopaedia.
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