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Caribbees
/ ˈkærɪˌbiːz /
Example Sentences
The Princes were now fairly on their way to the West Indies; but, near Barbadoes, the Admiral sprang a leak, and had to put into Santa Lucia, in the Caribbees, the men "being almost spent with extreme labour."
Taking seven of the natives on board his vessels to act as guides, he set sail in quest of these cannibal islands, which are believed to have been the Caribbees.
Humboldt says, that the Guayaquilists measure six feet and a half, and the Payaguas are equally tall, while the Caribbees of Cumana are distinguished by their almost gigantic size from all the other nations he had met with in the New World.
In theory this style could be helpful in addressing the plays Mr. Maxwell has taken on here: “Moon of the Caribbees,” “Bound East for Cardiff” and “The Long Voyage Home.”
When the actors take their places in this pristine environment for the “Moon of the Caribbees,” the play that opens the production, they register as an enhancement of the set’s plain geometry, integers in some vast, abstract equation.
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