Publisher's Synopsis
The group of islands known as the Bahamas lies east of southern Florida and north of Cuba. The islands are of interest, because one of them, San Salvador, was the first land of the New World discovered by Columbus, in 1492. Columbus found the Bahamas in the possession of a prosperous and happy people who called the islands the Lucayas, and themselves Ceboynas. Nowhere in all the black pages of history is there a darker tragedy than theirs; and while it is eminently proper that we should pay all homage to the transcendent genius and noble nature of the great admiral, and that we should celebrate with all pomp and pride the miraculous growth of our own civilization, does it not also become us to commemorate in some way, at the same time, the story of the unhappy and forgotten Ceboynas, to whom the discovery had a still more profound significance?...
