Identifier: navassaislandrio01gali (find matches)
Title: The Navassa island riot ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Galilean fishermen, Baltimore, Md Hall, Thomas I Gordon, Columbus
Subjects: Trials
Publisher: Baltimore, The American job office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and the entireCourt proceedings. THOMAS I. HALL, B. W. N. G. Ruler,Oallilean Fishermen. COLOMBUS GORDOjS^, Secretary. THE pVi\ggA I^Li^WD \m, K ILLUSTRATED Published by The Nati07ial Grand Taberjiacle, Order of Galli-lean Fishennen, Baltimore^ Md. I^I?,IOEl - - TEllSr OEITTS. (FiiEasi? EiDiTioi^.) ( DEC 191889 bai.timork :The American Job Office. i88q. Copyright, 1889, by Hall & Johnson. TO THE PUBLIC THE Humanitarian Order, known as The GallileanFishermen, and noted for its charity and benev-olence to suffering humanity, has issued this lit-tle pamphlet as an aid in procuring funds to defray thelegal expenses growing out of the trial of the eighteenmen indicted for alleged riot, upon the Island ofNavassa. The pamphlet has also been published in thehope that it may fall into the hands of some of the rel-atives of these unfortunate men, now residing in otherplaces, and who from their portraits herein, will recog-nize them and aid in the general contribution startedin their behalf.
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NAVASSA. The Island of Navassa is situated in the Oarribbean Sea,(West Indies) 18° 25 north latitude, and 75° 5 longitude westof Greenwich, 33 miles southwest of Hayti, and 72 miles eastof Jamaica. It is an upraised Coral Island, filled with Phosphate of Lime.In fact, all the cavities of the coral rock forming the frame-workof the Island, contain deposits of Phosphate of Lime. The Island was discovered in 1856 by -an American, beingelevated 300 feet above sea level, and is without a sand beach—standing conspicuously with its rocky bluff as a perpendicularwall. The foot of the Island is incessantly battered by thewaves, and much of it has already been undermined, forming adeep cut several feet high, which would necessarily cause it totumble down, were it not protected by a fringed reef of livingcorals, this reef forming a breaker several feet wide. A mancould easily walk around the whole Island of Navassa, followingthe foot of the bluff, did the sea not break over it so constantly.navassaislandrio01gali

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