02306nam 22004453 450 991102613010332120250505152556.097897664057179766405719(CKB)5580000000524989(MiAaPQ)EBC30678548(Au-PeEL)EBL30678548(OCoLC)1393305340(EXLCZ)99558000000052498920250505d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHiroona an historical romance in poetic form /Reverend Canon Horatio Nelson Huggins ; edited, with annotations and an introduction by Desha Amelia Osborne1st ed.Kingston, Jamaica :The University of the West Indies Press,2015.1 online resource (287 pages)Includes bibliographical references.Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Editing -- Introduction -- Original Foreword -- Original Preface -- Introduction -- Hiroona Discovered -- Canto I -- Early History of St Vincent -- Canto II -- Mutterings of Coming War -- Canto III -- French Intrigue and War Begins -- Canto IV -- A Carib Raid -- Canto v -- RanÈe -- Canto vI -- The Caribs Sweep All Before Them -- Canto VII -- Caribs Repulsed: Chetwayé Falls -- Canto VIII -- Victory Fluctuates -- Canto IX -- The War Continues. England's Star Ascending -- Canto X -- Events of the War: RanÈe Slain -- Canto XI -- Hiroona Falls -- Canto XII -- Hiroona's Doom -- Appendix -- The Holiday -- Notes -- Acknowledgements.With over nine thousand lines of rhyming verse, Hiroona: An Historical Romance in Poetic Form tells the fictionalized story of the "Second Carib War" of 1795-97 between Great Britain and the people then known as the Black Caribs with the aid of France.Narrative poetry, EnglishSaint VincentHistoryCarib War, 1795-1796PoetryNarrative poetry, English.823.8Huggins Horatio Nelson1830-1895,1847354Osborne Desha AmeliaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911026130103321Hiroona4432889UNINA