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The English in the West Indies; Or, the Bow of Ulysses Paperback – August 1, 2012

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Paperback: 438 pages
Publisher: HardPress Publishing (August 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1290636281
ISBN-13: 978-1290636285
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
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Interesting read.

James A. Donald

Accurate prediction

January 16, 2012

Format: Kindle Edition

As Froude predicted, we gave them self government. As Froude predicted, the whites mostly fled. And as Froude predicted, everything went to hell in a handbasket.

Froude was nostalgic for the good old days of colonialism, when colonials were pirates and brigands. This empire stuff is no good he tells us, due to meddling do-gooders in Whitehall out of contact with reality. He does not quite say empire is a communist plot, since communists were not on the horizon back then, but this modern reader was apt to anachronistically feel that empire was a communist plot.

Froude's attitude to empire is well expressed by this poem, which he quotes in full

Oh ! England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high,
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I ;
And such a port for mariners I'll never see again
As the pleasant Isle of Aves beside the Spanish main.

There were forty craft in Aves that were both swift and stout,
All furnished well with small arms and cannon all about ;
And a thousand men in Aves made laws so fair and free
To choose their valiant captains and obey them loyally.

Then we sailed against the Spaniard with his hoards of plate and gold,
Which he wrung with cruel tortures from Indian folks of old ;
Likewise the merchant captains, with hearts as hard as stone,
Who flog men and keelhaul them and starve them to the bone.

Oh ! palms grew high in Aves, and fruits that shone like gold,
And the colibris and parrots they were gorgeous to behold,
And the negro maids to Aves from bondage fast did flee
To welcome gallant sailors a sweeping in from sea.

Oh ! sweet it was in Aves to hear the landward breeze
A swing with good tobacco in a net between the trees,
With a negro lass to fan you while you listened to the roar
Of the breakers on the reef outside which never touched the shore.

But Scripture saith an ending to all fine things must be,
So the king's ships sailed on Aves and quite put down were we.
All day we fought like bull dogs, but they burnt the booms at night,
And I fled in a piragua sore wounded from the fight.

Nine days I floated starving, and a negro lass beside,
Till for all I tried to cheer her the poor young thing she died.
But as I lay a gasping a Bristol sail came by,
And brought me home to England here to beg until I die.

And now I'm old and going : I'm sure I can't tell where.
One comfort is, this world's so hard I can't be worse off there.
If I might but be a sea dove, I'd fly across the main
To the pleasant Isle of Aves to look at it once again.

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