"Basseterre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... twenty-four hours very unsettled weather; kept on our tacks, beating up under Guadaloupe, and at half-past seven in the morning, the road of Basseterre bearing east, five leagues distant, saw a sail in the south-east standing to the south-west, which, from her situation, I at first took for a large ship from Martinique, and hoisted English colours in giving chase, by way of inducement for her to come down and speak me, which would ...
— The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 • J. F. Loubat
... Basseterre, was a town of more than ten thousand population, it might reasonably be expected that some news of the foundering of the Ramona would be received there. It was in that vicinity, as was evident from the rescue ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose |
