The British and other Europeans who went out to the West Indies to get rich usually died first.

走出家门去西印度群岛想发财致富的英国人和别的欧洲人通常会在那先死掉。

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The capital of Barbados, in the West Indies. It was founded by the British in1628. Population, 7,466.

布里奇顿西印度群岛的巴巴多斯的首府。由英国人于1628年建立。人口7,466。

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"When I was reared in the British West Indies my grandmother used to always tell me, you may not be loved by certain forces in a society and you have to understand why.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

What strikes the author most is the uncertainty and flux of their lives as they and their circle improvised their way through the confusion of French, Spanish and British jurisdictions in the West Indies and America, and through the creeping, morphing status of the British in India.

ECONOMIST: Retracing the steps of one 18th-century Scottish family

The number could be cut down if existing groupings could be widened for instance if Malaya could federate with Sarawak and Borneo, British Guiana with the West Indies.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

Ten British colonies formed a pre-independence Federation of the West Indies in 1958.

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