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Columbus discovery of 1492
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bahamas
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
islands discovered by Columbus in 1492, settled by English in 1648, long after the native population had been wiped out by disease or carried off into slavery; the name is said to be from Spanish baja mar "low sea," in reference to the shallow water here, ...
Usage examples of bahamas.
This sad scene may be repeated in coming months as the Bahamas conducts a coldhearted purge of as many as 40,000 Haitians, many of whom have lived and worked in the islands for years.
Exports from Central and South America were sent to Europe by way of the Strait of Magellan, and little or none went through the passes between the Bahamas and the Caribbees.
His half-brother Orlando escaped by boat to the Bahamas last week, and was promptly offered a humanitarian visa by U.
Category Two Tourists are from Canada, the Bahamas, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Panama, Mexico and Jamaica.
She had never been to either the Bahamas or Florida, so it would make an interesting trip.
He was sailing here, it seemed, in his own ocean-going yacht, pretending to be taking a leisurely trip around the Bahamas, in order to throw the media off the scent.
Other guests would be coming by boat from other parts of Florida or the Bahamas on the wedding day itself.
He had spent a quiet vacation with her in the Bahamas the week before I met him in Chicago, and at first I got the impression that he was fairly serious about her.
Chokoloskee people called my dad a conch from the Bahamas, but he come from the Channel Isles of England to trade some furs and feathers off the Indins.