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" The exact date of the discovery of Barbados is not known. It is said to have been first visited by the Portuguese, who, finding it uninhabited and rude in appearance, named the isle Los Barbados, from the number of bearded fig-trees which they found. "
History of the British Colonies: Possessions in the West Indies - Page 317
de Robert Montgomery Martin - 1834 - 2888 pages
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The British Colonial Library, [comprising a Popular and Authentic ...

Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 376 pages
...leeward according to their westerly, position. GENERAL HISTORY. — The early discovery of Barbadoes is involved in obscurity ; the island remained unknown...swine and plants on the isle, and abandoned it. In 1 605, an English ship, the Olive, returning from Guinea, accidentally touched at Barbadoes, landed...
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Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire ...: From the Official ...

Robert Montgomery Martin - 1839 - 942 pages
...in length and 14 in breadth, with a surface of 106,470 acres. II. The early discovery of Barbadoes is involved in obscurity; the island remained unknown...number of fig trees which from their spreading branches were1 likened to luxuriant beards. The original discoverers left some swine and plants on the isle...
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History of the Colonies of the British Empire ...: From the Official Records ...

Robert Montgomery Martin - 1843 - 1074 pages
...Barbadoes is involved in obscurity ; the island remained unknown and unnoticed for a century alter the discoveries of Columbus, and the first indication...which from their spreading branches were likened to luxuriant beards. The original discoverers left some swine and plants on the isle and abandoned it....
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History of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South ...

Robert Montgomery Martin - 1843 - 984 pages
...indication of its existence in the charts of European navigators, was AD IfiOO. It is said to bave been first visited by the Portuguese, who, finding...uninhabited, and rude in appearance, named the isle IMS KurlMiilo», or as some say in référence to the number of tig trees which from their spreading...
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Debow's Review: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress and ..., Volume 5

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1848 - 558 pages
...noticed on the charts of European navigators. By no hostile force has Barbadoes ever been captured. It is said to have been first visited by the Portuguese, who named it Los Barbados, from the number of fig trees — whose- branches were likened to luxurious beards....
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The Colonial Office List

Great Britain. Colonial Office - 1877 - 528 pages
...of Barbados is not known, but the earliest indication of its existence in the charts was in 1600. It said to have been first visited by the Portuguese,...and rude in appearance, named the isle Los Barbados, from the number of bearded figtrees which they found. In 1625 Sir William Courteen, a London merchant,...
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Census of the British empire: compiled from official returns for 1861, Volume 2

Charles Anthony Coke - 1864 - 212 pages
...discovery of Barhados is not known, but the first indication of its existence in the charts was in 1600. It is said to have been first visited by the Portuguese, who finding it uninhahited and rude in appearance, named the isle Los Barhados, from the number of bearded fig trees...
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Trinidad and the Other West India Islands and Colonies

Daniel Hart - 1866 - 268 pages
...discovery of Barbados is not known, but the first ind:. cation of its existence in the charts was in 1600. It is said to have been first visited by the...rude in appearance , named the Isle Los Barbados, from the number of bearded fig-trees which they found, and then abandoned it. In 1625 Sir William Courteen,...
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In the tropics; or Scenes and incidents of West Indian life

Jabez Marrat - 1876 - 192 pages
...multiplied stems, form pleasant natural arbours. Montgomery Martin says, " The early discovery of Barbadoes is involved in obscurity ; the island remained unknown...which from their spreading branches were likened to luxuriant beards. The original discoverers left some plants and swine on the isle and abandoned it....
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British America: With Two Maps

1900 - 652 pages
...thirty-one Church of England schools, and thirty-two private schools. BARBADOS. Said to have been discovered by the Portuguese, who, finding it uninhabited and rude in appearance, named it the isle Los Barbados from the number of bearded figtrees found there. It was taken possession of...
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