Word: hispaniola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Morgan became their Admiral-in-Chief. By that time (1667) they had found other, more dangerous fish to fry; some of them were no better than pirates. In Morgan's early career he was not much better himself: he served a bloody apprenticeship against the Spaniards in Hispaniola and Granada, quitted himself so like a buccaneer that he was elected Admiral. Jamaica's Governor Modyford made it official by handing him a commission...
...picture," said Prodigy Ledger to a New York Times reporter, "is called 'On Board the Hispaniola,' and it's based on a sea story, the name of which I have forgotten." Apparently both the Times reporter and the Selection Committee had forgotten Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island too. A few days later indignant letter writers informed the Royal Academy that the picture was not only an illustration for Treasure Island, but an exact copy of the frontispiece of John Seymour Lucas' illustrated edition. Embarrassed, Sir William Llewellyn ordered the picture removed...
...Hispaniola. Three hundred years ago only a madman would have suggested that the little Dutch trading post at the mouth of the Hudson would ever be more important than the city of Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo in 1630 was still the capital and nerve centre of the declining Spanish Empire in the New World. Dominicans are prouder than Mexicans of their Spanish blood. Actually over half the population is Mulatto. They pay no taxes. The government struggles along on a 60% tariff on all imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee...
...rank of Admiral, was conducting his third series of American explorations (he later made a fourth and final voyage from Spain). Without his knowledge charges had been made against him at the Spanish Court, had been believed. King Ferdinand had appointed Courtier Francisco Bobadilla to be Governor of Hispaniola (The Spanish Isle) empowered to arrest Columbus and ship him off to Spain...
When Columbus set sail to discover a new passage to India, one of the islands he touched upon was Haiti, then named Hispaniola. Little did he or the Spanish colonists who came after him realize what deep and ticklish problems this little island would present...