hispaniola in English
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1. They visited several islands before arriving at their primary destination in Hispaniola.
2. The Taino, an Arawak subgroup, were the first native peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus on Hispaniola.
3. Blandly himself found the HISPANIOLA, and by the most admirable management got her for the merest trifle.
4. 7 The Hispaniola rolled steadily, dipping her bowsprit nod and then with a whiff of spray.
5. 24 Right in front of me, not half a mile away, I beheld the Hispaniola under sail.
6. By 1515, on Hispaniola alone, war and slavery had killed 200,000 Arawaks, or 80 percent of the original population, by conservative estimates
7. The lemon was later introduced to the Americas in 1493 when Christopher Columbus brought lemon seeds to Hispaniola on his voyages.
8. Abaka Bay is located off the southwestern coast of the island of Haiti (also know as Hispaniola) on the enchanted island of Ile a Vache
9. They are divided into two major groups: the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico; and the Lesser Antilles, comprising
10. Abaka Bay Resort is located off the southwestern coast of the island of Haiti (also know as Hispaniola) on the enchanted island of Ile a Vache
11. Woe Betide them, for all their gold collars and maces, had they kept her out! Whate'er Betide, meseems we cannot do worse on the continent than in Hispaniola.
12. Classic Taíno (Taíno proper) was the native language of the northern Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and most of Hispaniola, and it was expanding into Cuba.
13. It is found on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and is the only known species of rock iguana to coexist with the rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta).
14. A chain of islands in the West Indies, divided into two parts, one including Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico (Greater Antilles), the other including a large arch of smaller islands to the SE and S (Lesser Antilles or Caribees).
15. The latter species, with short petioles, acute to acuminate leaf bases, and thick laminas, has two varieties, H. salicifolius var. salicifolius of Cuba and Haiti, and H. salicifolius var. obovatus of Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
16. See Article History Alternative Title: Antillean Arawak Taino, Arawakan -speaking people who at the time of Christopher Columbus ’s exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
17. Antilles definition, a chain of islands in the West Indies, divided into two parts, the one including Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico (Greater Antilles ), the other including a large arch of smaller islands to the SE and S (Lesser Antilles, or Caribees )
18. Antilles definition, a chain of islands in the West Indies, divided into two parts, the one including Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico (Greater Antilles ), the other including a large arch of smaller islands to the SE and S (Lesser Antilles, or Caribees )
19. His study revealed a truly epic migration story: Blackpoll Warblers breed in the northeastern United States and travel nonstop more than 2000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean to winter in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico—quite a feat for a bird weighing as much as a AAA battery
20. In Man Without a Country (aka Anthropophagist wading in the Artibonite River), Báez uses two hundred and twenty-five pages sourced from late nineteenth-century texts on the history of Hispaniola—the Caribbean island that is divided between the Dominican Republic and Haiti—as supports for her hand-drawn illustrations.