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JAMAICA
Jamaica, like many another of the West Indian Islands,
is like a woman with a history. She has had her experiences
and has lived her life rapidly. She has enjoyed a fever of
prosperity founded upon those incalculable treasures
poured into her lap by the old time buccaneer pirates.
She has suffered earthquake, famine, pestilence, fire
and death: and she has been the home of cruel merciless
slavery, hardly second to that practised by the Spaniards
themselves. Other countries have taken centuries to
grow from their primitive life through the flower and
fruit of prosperity into the seed time of picturesque
decrepitude. Jamaica has lived through it all in a few years.
- Howard Pyle
"Jamaica New and Old"
Harpers New Monthly Magazine, 1890
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