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Title: The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon E. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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believe that he had a largeforce at his disposal, caused his men to be rowed back-wards and forwards between the ships and the shore. Ontheir way to the shore they stood up ; but as they wererowed back to the brigantines they hid below the gunwales.He also placed dummy soldiers on the heights, and, to terror-ise the Spaniards, dressed up some of his men as Indians.The ruse answered admirably and the Spanish Governor,Antonio y Sanz, capitulated after only one round of shothad been fired from Deveaux batteries. It is easy toimagine what his disgust must have been when he dis-covered how completely he had been hoodwinked. Fort Fincastle, which stands on the ridge calledBennets Hill to the east of Government House and over-looking the town, should be visited. It can be approachedby the Queens Staircase, a remarkable flight of steps,sixty-seven in number, cut out of the solid coral rock. This quaint old fort, which takes its name from thesecond title of Lord Dunmore (see page 82), by whom
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THE BAHAMAS 85 it was built about 1793, is chiefly noteworthy on accountof its peculiar shape, which bears a striking resemblanceto that of an old-fashioned paddle-wheel steamer. It tapersfore and aft, if one may use that expression, while oneither side are buttressed fortifications which look strangelylike sponsons. Like Fort Charlotte, Fort Fincastle is nowused as a signal station, and the beflagged signal mastheightens the illusion. The view of the surrounding countryfrom the battlements is very striking. The Sea Gardens at the eastern end of Nassau Harbourare a never-failing source of attraction to visitors. A glass-bottomed boat is chartered from the Colonial Hotel orRawson Square, and through this can be seen in all theirstartling reality the wonders of life beneath the sea. Thevisitor gazes in amazement at a submarine garden deckedwith growing corals, some assuming the shapes of wavingyellow feathers, and others those of purple fans, amongwhich swim fishes of every size, shape,

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