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| | Tobago History, Ocean Point Hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Tobago, a small island in the Lesser Antilles, was the haven for the fictional Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe's fictional hero in The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719). |
 | | As was the custom with Dutch colonial settlement, the lands which bordered the bays and rivers and were essential to a maritime colony for farming, water power, transport and trade were named after the ruler. |
 | | After the establishment of his Tobago colony, Courland sold colonial wares such as tobacco, tropical birds, cotton, ginger, sugar, indigo, rum, cocoa, tortoise shells and feathers of tropical birds. |
| www.oceanpoint.com /courland.htm (1028 words) |
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