item: #1 of 22
          id: 17851
      author: Prince, Mary
       title: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
        date: None
       words: 27639
      flesch: 74
     summary: She is such a termagant, it seems, that if she once gets back to the colony _free_, she will not only make it too hot for poor Mr. Wood, but the police and courts of justice will scarce be a match for her! Mr. Wood did not then want to purchase me; it was my own fault that I came under him, I was so anxious to go.
    keywords: antigua; case; character; children; day; england; good; home; house; husband; mary; master; mistress; mother; mrs; people; poor; slave; slavery; time; woman; wood; work
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        item: #2 of 22
          id: 19139
      author: Haring, Clarence Henry
       title: The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
        date: None
       words: 99623
      flesch: 66
     summary: Ducasse, Jean-Baptiste (Governor of French Hispaniola), 260-61, 262, 263, 265, 266 Ducéré, Eduard, 285-6 Duro, Cesario Fernandez, 135 _n._, 211 _n._, 243 _n._, 285 Dutch wars, _see_ War West India Company, 47, 49 Dutertre, Jean-Baptiste, 70, 114, 116 _n._, 118 _n._, 282, 284 East Indies, _see_ Indies, East Edmondes, Sir Thomas, 54 Edwards, Bryan, 283 Elizabeth, Queen, 29, 31, 34, 38, 39, 46, 50, 101, 136 Elletson, Robert, 248, 249, 255, 257 _ Villalba y Toledo, Don Francisco de, 77 Villars, Marquis de, 9 _n._ Virgin Islands, 40, 235, 236 Virginia, 47, 51, 54, 112, 129, 201, 207, 272 War between England and France, 1666-67, 131, 141 War between England and Netherlands, 1665-67, 127-41 War between France and Netherlands, 1674-78, 219 _ff._ War of the Spanish Succession, 271-72 Succession of the Palatinate, 258 _ff._ Watson, Sir Francis, 257 Watts, Elias (Governor of Tortuga), 114, 116 and _n._, 117 Watts, Colonel William (Governor of St. Kitts), 130 _n._ Weiss, Charles, 285 West Indies, _see_ Indies, West Whitstone, Sir Thomas (buccaneer), 140, 273 Wilgress, Captain, 201 William III., King of England, 257, 258 Williams, Captain John, _alias_
    keywords: admiral; america; bello; buccaneers; c.s.p; captain; cartagena; city; coast; colon; colonies; commission; company; council; cruz; cuba; day; days; dutch; england; english; etc; expedition; exquemelin; fleet; footnote; freebooters; french; galleons; general; good; government; governor; guns; hispaniola; ibid; indies; inhabitants; island; jamaica; king; left; lord; lynch; march; men; modyford; morgan; mss; new; nos; number; orders; panama; pieces; pirates; place; port; prisoners; privateers; royal; san; sea; ships; sir; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; thomas; time; tortuga; town; trade; vessels; vol; war; west; years
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        item: #3 of 22
          id: 19589
      author: Bigges, Walter
       title: A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine.
        date: None
       words: 12851
      flesch: 56
     summary: In the meane time the Gouernour of GALLISIA had reared such forces as he might, his numbers by estimate vvere some two thowsand foot, and three hundred horse, and marched from BAYON to this part of the countrey, vvhich lay in sight of our Fleete, vvhere making stand, he sent to parle vvith our Generall, vvhich vvas graunted by our Generall, so it might be in boates vpon the vvater: and for safetie of their persons, there vvere pledges deliuered on both sides, vvhich done, the Gouernour of GALLISIA put him selfe vvith two others into our Vice-Admirals Skiffe, the same hauing bene sent to the shore for him. Now to the satisfying of some men, who maruel greatly that such a famous and goodly builded Citie so vvell inhabited of gallant people, very brauely apparelled (vvhereof our souldiers found good store for their reliefe) should afoord no greater riches then vvas found there, vvherein it is to be vnderstood that the Indian people, which were the naturals of this vvhole Island of HISPANIOLA (the same being neare hand as great as England) were many yeares since cleane consumed by the tyrannie of the Spaniards, vvhich vvas cause, that for lacke of people to vvorke in the Mines, the gold and siluer Mines of this Island are vvholy giuen ouer, and thereby they are faine in this Island to vse copper money, whereof vvas found verie great quantitie.
    keywords: captaine; day; fleete; generall; good; great; hauing; maister; men; ordinance; page; place; sea; shore; shot; time; towne; verie; vnto; vpon; vvas; vve; vvhich; vvith
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        item: #4 of 22
          id: 21357
      author: Fenn, George Manville
       title: Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land
        date: None
       words: 74358
      flesch: 88
     summary: You'll have to buy me another one, Master Nic, continued the man, and get the smith to make me a noo steel hook. You did laugh, sir, roared the Captain--that is, I saw you look at Master Nic here and smile.
    keywords: 'em; away; big; bit; black; boat; captain; dee; dogs; eyes; father; fellow; good; hand; head; help; humpy; lad; like; look; man; master nic; men; nic; overseer; pete; place; right; river; round; salmon; sir; solly; thought; time; water; zir
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        item: #5 of 22
          id: 21453
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
        date: None
       words: 63654
      flesch: 80
     summary: Our first wishes were to see the wreck and old Mr Mugford, whom we agreed to dub Captain Mugford; and so, immediately after breakfast, we started out with Mr Clare to find those items of principal interest. We felt no hostility to Latin and Greek, for we were but reading of foreign lands and strange people across the ocean in old times, the occurrences of which were but storm-cast hulks like our old brig.
    keywords: alfred; board; boat; boys; brig; cape; captain; clare; clump; come; day; days; drake; father; fellow; fire; good; half; hand; harry; head; higginson; home; house; juno; land; life; look; man; massa; men; moment; morning; mr clare; mugford; night; pipe; poor; rock; saw; sea; ship; shore; smugglers; thought; time; ugly; walter; way; wind; work
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        item: #6 of 22
          id: 22033
      author: Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
       title: Plotting in Pirate Seas
        date: None
       words: 57941
      flesch: 83
     summary: Motioning Stuart to enter and showing the narrow ledge around the pit with the spotlight, he followed. Whereupon Stuart remembered the guarded way in which the Managing Editor had spoken of European Powers, and this thought of Cecil threw him back upon his quest.
    keywords: air; american; black; boat; boy; cecil; chapter; citadel; city; cuban; day; editor; englishman; eyes; father; general; going; good; haitian; half; hand; hurricane; indies; island; leborge; left; look; manuel; men; moment; money; negro; new; paper; place; right; saw; sea; spanish; states; story; stuart; thought; time; town; trees; united; want; way; west; white; work; world
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        item: #7 of 22
          id: 26690
      author: Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
       title: The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main
        date: None
       words: 59022
      flesch: 61
     summary: They found much difficulty in their approach to the city, for within the town the Spaniards had placed many great guns, at several quarters, some charged with small pieces of iron, and others with musket bullets; with all these they saluted the pirates at their approaching, and gave them full and frequent broadsides, firing at them incessantly; so that unavoidably they lost at every step great numbers of men. Here they set down distinctly what sums of money each particular person ought to have for that voyage, the fund of all the payments being what is gotten by the whole expedition; for otherwise it is the same law among these people as with other pirates.
    keywords: captain; captain morgan; castle; city; day; days; english; fire; fleet; french; governor; guns; inhabitants; island; lolonois; men; morgan; new; panama; people; pieces; pirates; place; prisoners; rest; river; sea; seeing; ship; spaniards; spanish; things; time; town; way
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        item: #8 of 22
          id: 2854
      author: None
       title: Sir Francis Drake Revived
        date: None
       words: 29169
      flesch: 56
     summary: Some thought, that It was most necessary to seek supply of victuals, that we might the better be able to keep our men close and in health till our time came: and this way easy to be compassed, because the frigates with victuals went without great defence, whereas the frigates and barks with treasure, for the most part were wafted with great ships and store of soldiers. This report had his ground from one DIEGO a Negro, who, in the time of the first conflict, came and called to our pinnaces, to know whether they were Captain DRAKE'S?
    keywords: captain; cimaroons; company; day; days; dios; frigate; good; land; men; night; nombre; pinnaces; place; reason; sea; ship; shot; spaniards; time; town; water; way
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        item: #9 of 22
          id: 29047
      author: Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)
       title: Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life
        date: None
       words: 113323
      flesch: 76
     summary: On the shore, too, were a score or more of the piratical gang--Spaniards, negroes, Indians, Italians, and who not--ferocious-looking scoundrels, busy as bees, splicing and knotting ropes, stretching new rigging, cutting running gear from the coils of hemp or Manilla-grass rope, or making spun-yarn and chafing-mats; while beneath the low mat sheds hard by, sail-makers were stitching away with their shining needles, making a set of square sails for the changed rig of the Centipede, or repairing old sails. From the storehouse, too, he obtained plenty of provisions to supply their wants, and old sails and rope he found in abundance.
    keywords: arms; babette; black; blue; blunt; board; boat; body; boy; brand; breeze; brig; cabin; captain; captain brand; centipede; chapter; child; clear; commodore; crew; darcantel; dark; day; deck; doctor; don; door; eyes; face; father; feet; fellow; finger; fore; friend; frigate; gibbs; girl; glass; gold; good; half; hand; head; ignaçio; island; lay; left; like; lips; look; low; main; man; master; men; moment; morning; mother; mouth; night; padre; pirate; piron; rocks; rope; round; sail; saw; schooner; sea; ship; shore; sir; sun; table; think; thought; time; vessel; voice; water; way; white; wind; years
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        item: #10 of 22
          id: 32728
      author: Froude, James Anthony
       title: The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses
        date: None
       words: 126770
      flesch: 72
     summary: Old men at any rate like to think so. One must applaud the caution which the authorities have at last displayed; but cattle thrive at Mandeville, and sheep, and black men and women in luxuriant abundance.
    keywords: air; american; antilles; barbadoes; black; british; captain; chapter; church; colonial; colonies; come; condition; constitution; country; course; cuba; day; days; dominica; empire; end; england; english; feet; fine; form; french; general; good; government; governor; half; harbour; havana; hayti; home; house; human; indian; indies; interest; island; jamaica; kind; kingston; leave; life; like; look; man; men; miles; morning; mountains; nature; negro; negroes; new; officers; opinion; people; place; port; present; race; right; rodney; round; rule; sea; set; sir; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; sugar; things; thought; time; town; trade; trees; trinidad; water; way; west; west indian; white; work; world; years
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        item: #11 of 22
          id: 32809
      author: Rodway, James
       title: The West Indies and the Spanish Main
        date: None
       words: 92417
      flesch: 65
     summary: The native Americans--The Arawak and the Carib--Their independent spirit--Their country--The character of the Spaniard--He wants to convert the natives to Christianity--A ton of gold--First Spanish settlers in Hispaniola--They ravage the island and are entirely cut off--The second colony oppresses the Indians--Repartimientos--Cruelties to the Indian slaves--Decrease of the population--Slave-hunting in other islands and on the Main--Resistance of the cannibals--Decline of Hispaniola. II. It followed, therefore, that some of the more audacious of the adventurers took up the trade of kidnapping the Indians from other islands and the mainland.
    keywords: barbados; british; buccaneers; captain; colonies; colony; company; country; days; death; dutch; end; enemy; england; english; fleet; france; french; general; gold; good; government; governor; guiana; hispaniola; illustration; indians; indies; inhabitants; island; jamaica; king; left; little; main; man; means; men; negroes; new; number; party; people; place; plantations; planters; possession; result; river; sea; slavery; slaves; spain; spaniards; spanish; time; town; trade; vessels; war; way; west; west indies; whites; work; year
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        item: #12 of 22
          id: 3334
      author: Bigges, Walter
       title: Drake's Great Armada
        date: None
       words: 13887
      flesch: 54
     summary: And so we being once seized and assured of that, they were content to suffer us to lodge within their town, and themselves to go to their wives, whom they had carried into other places of the country before our coming thither. This town, though not half so big as St. Domingo, gives, as you see, a far greater ransom, being in very deed of far more importance, by reason of the excellency of the harbour, and the situation thereof to serve the trade of Nombre de Dios and other places, and is inhabited with far more richer merchants.
    keywords: captain; day; drake; fleet; general; island; land; lieutenant; master; men; place; sea; ships; shore; shot; time; town
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        item: #13 of 22
          id: 36242
      author: Champlain, Samuel de
       title: Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the Years 1599-1602
        date: None
       words: 43255
      flesch: 59
     summary: Of its originality and authenticity there can be no doubt; the internal evidence of similarity in style, diction, and orthography even, with the published account of Champlain's _Voyages in New France_, would alone suffice to establish those points.[1] M. Féret obtained this valuable document from a resident in Dieppe, where it has been for an unknown time; and it is more than probable that it had been in the possession of M. de Chastes, governor of the town and castle of Dieppe, who was Champlain's chief friend and protector, under whose auspices he had been employed in the war in Brittany against the League, and by whom, after his return from the West Indies, he was sent to Canada.
    keywords: account; admiral; caen; champlain; coast; colony; company; country; days; dieppe; english; following; fort; france; french; fruit; general; good; gravé; indians; island; king; leagues; man; men; monts; new; order; people; place; pont; port; provisions; quebec; return; river; sea; settlement; ships; spain; spaniards; tadoussac; time; town; tree; vessels; voyage; year
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        item: #14 of 22
          id: 36244
      author: Crowninshield, Schuyler, Mrs.
       title: Latitude 19° A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty
        date: None
       words: 140322
      flesch: 89
     summary: Finding Cynthia stubborn, I went back and lay down again. Why didn't he come, then? Said he was _English_, sir; 'd _like_, to go back.
    keywords: admiral; beach; black; bo's'n; boat; boy; captain; cave; christophe; close; come; cynthia; day; eyes; face; feet; find; floor; girl; god; good; hand; head; home; jones; king; lacelle; left; life; light; like; little; look; man; mauresco; men; mind; minion; moment; near; papaloi; place; red; rest; ring; rock; round; shore; sir; skipper; smith; thing; thought; time; tree; uncle; voice; wall; want; water; way; words; young; zalee
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        item: #15 of 22
          id: 36621
      author: Colman, George
       title: Inkle and Yarico: An opera, in three acts
        date: None
       words: 17114
      flesch: 100
     summary: _Trudge. _Trudge.
    keywords: black; camp; chr; christopher; fellow; good; inkle; love; man; narcissa; patty; plant; poor; sir; sir chr; tell; trudge; wows; wowski; yarico
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        item: #16 of 22
          id: 36963
      author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
       title: Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America
        date: None
       words: 95966
      flesch: 61
     summary: In this department of progress, Montevideo seems in advance of many larger cities. The police arrangements of Montevideo are excellent, and the streets are safe for man or woman at any hour of the day or night, which one is forced to admit is more than can be truthfully said of the majority of large cities in either Europe or North America.
    keywords: america; atlantic; author; away; ayres; bay; beauty; brazil; buenos; business; capital; character; chili; city; class; climate; coast; condition; continent; country; course; day; days; distance; domestic; english; fact; feet; flowers; form; fruit; good; grand; green; half; harbor; height; high; house; island; life; line; little; man; means; miles; native; nature; new; north; number; ocean; pará; people; place; point; population; port; portion; present; public; republic; rio; river; sea; ship; shore; size; south; southern; square; states; streets; sugar; sun; surface; thomas; time; town; trees; water; west; white; women; world; years; yellow
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        item: #17 of 22
          id: 4068
      author: Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)
       title: Froudacity; West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
        date: None
       words: 47297
      flesch: 47
     summary: Alas, if the foregoing summary of the ghastly imaginings of Mr. Froude were true, in what a fool's paradise had the wisest and best amongst us been living, moving, and having our being! History, as against the hard and fast White-master and Black-slave theory so recklessly invented and confidently built upon by Mr. Froude, would show incontestably--(a) that for upwards of two hundred years before the Negro Emancipation, in 1838, there had never existed in one of those then British Colonies, which had been originally discovered and settled for Spain by the great Columbus or by his successors, the Conquistadores, any prohibition whatsoever, on the ground of race or colour, against the owning of slaves by any free person possessing the necessary means, and desirous of doing so; (b) that, as a consequence of this non-restriction, and from causes notoriously historical, numbers of blacks, half-breeds, and other non-Europeans, besides such of them as had become possessed of their property by inheritance, availed themselves of this virtual license, and in course of time constituted a very considerable proportion of the slave-holding section of those communities; (c) that these [14] dusky plantation-owners enjoyed and used in every possible sense the identical rights and privileges which were enjoyed and used by their pure-blooded Caucasian brother-slaveowners.
    keywords: according; african; anglo; author; black; book; british; case; colonial; colonies; colony; colour; course; day; english; fact; froude; good; government; governor; human; indian; indies; influence; inhabitants; justice; life; man; men; negro; negroes; official; people; persons; present; public; race; regard; self; sense; sir; skin; slave; slavery; time; trinidad; west; west indies; white; world; years
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        item: #18 of 22
          id: 40937
      author: Ross, Albert
       title: A New Sensation
        date: None
       words: 82753
      flesch: 84
     summary: and I thought with exultation of the closeness of the hour when I might call at the lodging of Miss Marjorie May on Forty-fifth Street, and see the lady whom I had already surrounded with the most charming attributes of which a young and impulsive mind could conceive. The reader will doubtless have come to the conclusion that I was by this time tired of my bargain and wished Miss Marjorie May had never come across my path.
    keywords: chapter; companion; course; day; door; edgerly; eggert; eyes; face; friend; good; half; hand; head; hour; journey; lady; leave; left; letter; life; little; love; man; marjorie; matter; mind; miss; money; morning; need; new; place; right; room; statia; steamer; table; thing; thought; time; tom; want; way; wesson; wish; woman; young
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        item: #19 of 22
          id: 43770
      author: Starr, Ida May Hill
       title: Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main
        date: None
       words: 43938
      flesch: 74
     summary: Now had I been more familiar with the rare though limited treasures of West Indian literature, I would not have marvelled at the glorious mountain summits of Martinique that day we came to picturesque St. Pierre; I might have said to my companion: Ah! here they are, quite as I expected; old, old friends; little white city, square cathedral tower, narrow, hilly streets; above and beyond little irregular fields--all hanging to the mountainside as they should! The little blue map of the West Indies given to me at our departure, which same map has lain very snugly between the unopened pages of my journal until to-day, shows me, as for the first time I unfold the wrinkled paper, that we have just passed Watling's Island (the San Salvador of the early explorers) and a lot of other little islands; while a row of tiny dots shows that we are somewhere near the Tropic of Cancer.
    keywords: beautiful; beauty; black; blue; charlotte; children; city; columbus; daddy; day; deep; domingo; eyes; good; green; half; hand; head; illustration; islands; juan; left; look; man; martinique; morning; near; night; people; pierre; place; port; prince; puerto; ribbons; san; santo; sea; ship; sister; sun; thomas; thought; time; water; way; west; white
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        item: #20 of 22
          id: 43771
      author: Starr, Ida May Hill
       title: Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main
        date: None
       words: 36885
      flesch: 71
     summary: Once upon a time, in the far-off golden days, when the Divine in Creation had not been quite forgot, there came to this shore a band of men,--not faultless, no, not faultless--but great men for a' that, who, with glittering cross aloft, christened this fair land after the blessed Trinity. The idle hands were clasping rich harvests unsown, rich treasures in gold and silver glittered upon her fingers, and following the sweep of her green mantle, there was a race of warm-hearted children, within whose being there was the making of great men and women.
    keywords: american; away; black; caracas; children; church; city; country; curaçao; day; doctor; earth; english; feet; good; great; green; hotel; illustration; island; jamaica; lake; left; life; man; men; mother; mountains; new; people; pitch; place; sea; ship; south; spanish; sun; things; time; trees; trinidad; venezuela; way; white; women
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        item: #21 of 22
          id: 50020
      author: None
       title: The Right Way the Safe Way Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere
        date: None
       words: 40878
      flesch: 69
     summary: An able writer in the _Edinburgh Review_ informs us that, In the small island of St. Lucia an Encumbered Estate Court was established in 1833, and, small as that island is,[1] in the first eighteen months, liabilities were recorded to the enormous amount of £1,089,965 ($5,280,880); _all debts incurred under slavery_. But the December after emancipation, the Governor issued a proclamation, that, _in consequence of the abolition of slavery_, there was no further need of taking that precaution.
    keywords: antigua; barbadoes; british; children; colonies; condition; day; emancipation; estates; fact; freedom; good; indies; island; jamaica; labor; laborers; masters; men; negroes; new; people; planters; population; property; slavery; slaves; sugar; system; time; wages; west; work; years
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        item: #22 of 22
          id: 55100
      author: Trollope, Anthony
       title: The West Indies and the Spanish Main
        date: None
       words: 120734
      flesch: 77
     summary: In the first place, it is for the government to look to them; and then, lest the government should neglect its duty, it is for such men as Lord Brougham to look to the government. Few may probably have been produced who are able even to form an accurate judgment as to the genius of such men as these.
    keywords: america; barbados; belly; black; canal; central; costa; country; course; cuba; day; days; doubt; england; english; french; friend; good; government; governor; great; guiana; half; hands; head; home; hours; house; indies; island; jamaica; josé; juan; kingston; labour; lady; left; life; line; little; look; man; matter; means; men; money; negro; negroes; new; people; place; present; race; rate; regards; rica; river; road; round; san; saw; sea; spanish; states; subject; sugar; sun; thomas; time; town; trade; water; way; west; white; work; world; years
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