Statistics for occurrence #1 of “West Indies” in chapter 6, page 65 of George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.:
... sustain the hopes of the exiles.
It was resolved to return to Europe in such miserable brigantines as despair could construct.
Just then, Sir John Hawkins, the slave-merchant, arrived from the West Indies .
He came fresh from the sale of a cargo of Africans, whom he had kidnapped with signal ruthlessness;
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