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Excerpt from Gibraltar and the West Indies: Or Outposts of Empire No attempt has been made in this volume to write a history of any of the places touched upon; the endeavour rather has been to extract from their history a portion of the Romance with which each is saturated. But to deal adequately with such a subject is impossible; there is in the history of the British West Indian Islands alone sufficient Romance to fill space mariyé tinieslargertlfiad this book - not to mention that ofgjfgeyl'oh, gtlie Mauritius, British Honduras, and a vast} nambcréojiiother outlying parts of the British J. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.