Word: cay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spanking breeze was blowing up one day last fortnight as the schooner Livonia nosed out to sea past Plana Cay near Acklin Island, Bahamas. At the helm was Rt. Rev. Roscow George Shedden, Anglican Bishop of Nassau, master and owner of the Livonia. A hearty amateur yachtsman, a onetime (1909-19) captain in the British Royal Fusiliers, Bishop Shedden has since 1919 been spiritual lord of the Bahama, Turk and Caicos Islands-a diocese embracing 13,122 church members, 83 churches, extending some 175,000 square miles of land and sea. To visit his flock he had embarked...
...becomes agitated; Stanislaw has heard Marusia is still alive, still remembers him. Frantically he wires, sends messages, money. The little son he has never seen is brought to him. Marusia has died of cholera on the trip. Stanislaw and his wife patch up the pieces, go on again from cay...