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the Indies

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Noun1.the Indiesthe Indies - the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area
obeah, obi - (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
Anguilla - a British colony in the West Indies
Caribbean - region including the Caribbean Islands
Cayman Islands - a British colony in the Caribbean to the northwest of Jamaica; an international banking center
Montserrat - a volcanic island in the Caribbean; in the West Indies
British West Indies - the islands in the West Indies that were formerly under British control, including the Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Antigua, Grenada, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad
Antilles - a group of islands in the West Indies
French West Indies - the islands in the Lesser Antilles that are administered by France
Virgin Islands - a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain
Trinidad - an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela
Tobago - island in West Indies
Bahama Islands, Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Bahamas - island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort
Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
Anguillan - a native or inhabitant of the island of Anguilla in the West Indies
West Indian - a native or inhabitant of the West Indies


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I embarked in March, 1622, in the same fleet with the Count Vidigueira, on whom the king had conferred the viceroyship of the Indies, then vacant by the resignation of Alfonso Noronha, whose unsuccessful voyage in the foregoing year had been the occasion of the loss of Ormus, which being by the miscarriage of that fleet deprived of the succours necessary for its defence, was taken by the Persians and English.
How contemptible would the brightest Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the Indies, appear to my eyes
She was at the boarding of the viceroy of the Indies out of Goa, she was; and to look at her you would think she was a babby.
 
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