Crossword-Solution: ANTIGUANS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Every little way was a gang, averaging some thirty men, distinct in nationality,--Antiguans shoveling gravel, Martiniques snarling and quarreling as they wallowed thigh-deep in swamps and pools, a company of Greeks unloading train-loads of ties, Spaniards leisurely but steadily grading and surfacing, track bands of "Spigoties" chopping away the aggressive jungle with their machetes--the one task at which the native Panamanian (or Colombian, as many still call themselves) is worth his brass-check.

Congratulating themselves on possessing such a chief, the Antiguans conceived themselves invincible and happy under his guidance and government.

ANTIGUA AND THE ANTIGUANS: A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY AND ITS INHABITANTS FROM THE TIME OF THE CARIBS TO THE PRESENT DAY, Interspersed with Anecdotes and Legends.

Governor Colonel Daniel Parke—His birth-place and parentage—His actions at the battle of Holchet and Blenheim—His arrival at Antigua—Dissensions with the Antiguans—Complaints against him sent to England—Results of the applications at the court of Queen Anne—Tyrannical behaviour of Colonel Parke—Events of the 7th December, 1710—Death of Colonel Parke CHAPTER VIII.

War had not broken out in the West Indies, although it threatened the mother country, so that the Antiguans had a little quiet to settle their domestic affairs.