"Tobago" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... de Trinidad, &c. Par J.J.D. Laraysee. Paris, 1813. 2 vols. 8vo.—The first volume relates to Trinidad: the second to Tobago, Cumana, Guiana, and Margarita. The soil, climate, productions, and occasionally the natural history and geology of these ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson
... voyage began May 30, 1498, and embraced six vessels and 200 men. Columbus struck southwestward from the Cape Verde Islands and ran nearly to the equator, into a region of torrid heat, discovering Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, and the Gulf of Paria, and making his first landing on the continent, at the Pearl Coast, near the mouth of the Orinoco, in what is now Venezuela. This voyage witnessed many disasters—the rebellion of Roldan, the severe prostration of the admiral by fever, and his seizure and imprisonment ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various
... broad savannas bend, The rice-clad vales their verdant rounds extend; Tobago's plant its leaf expanding yields, The maize luxuriant clothes a thousand fields; Steeds, herds and flocks o'er northern regions rove, Embrown the hill and wanton thro the grove. The woodlands wide their sturdy honors bend, The ...
— The Columbiad • Joel Barlow |
