Statistics for occurrence #1 of “West India Islands” in chapter 18, page 221 of Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States:
...e, by avoiding the beaten track, and taking a new road home; thus verifying, in a very pointed manner, the old adage, that the longest way round is the shortest way home.
We now made sail for the West India Islands , designing, after a short cruise among them, to run into the French island of Martinique, and coal.
We still kept along on the beaten track of homeward-bound ships, but with little expectation of m...
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