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Show THE BERMUDAS ' H Tho Bermuda Islands, suggest the x M adventures of Iloblnson Crusoe In their Jk colonization and present In thclplater M chronology a curious parallel to United H States history, with tho events pro- H dated by a number of years. H Tho Iloblnson Crusoo comparison H obtrudes because tho Island was dls' H covered and later settled as tho direct H result of shipwrecks, and Uio settlers H hnd to build themselves a bark to set H again. H As for tho anticipation of American H history on a miniature scale, It may H bo noted that tho colonization took jH placo soven years before tho Pilgrims H landed nt Plymouth, Mass.; that witch H cs wcro burned, Quakers were terse- jH cuted, and nilscrennta were ducked JH beforo similar occurrences aro recorded ' j In New England, and that slavery was iH abolished In 1834, Tho Bcnuudlaus lM protested long beforo 1770 against tin) jB mother country's rule, until tho Island jB prisons wcro overfull; but relief jHH enmu In their coso not through a dqc- IJ taratlon of freedom, but by tho ac- BVJ cession of Cromwell. HJ But tho essential point of contact ot H tho American with tho Bcrmudlan jU arisen from tho nlt-but-forgottcn fact that whllo tho Immortal Lnfayetto gal flHfl Inntly helped tho colonics conclude jBVJ their war of Independence, tho Bermu flVJ dlans supplied the ammunition to be- HHI gin jpi So ncuto was tho need for powder In 9Hfl 1770 that Georgo Washington wroto to thu governor of Ithodo Islnnd that "no HBfl quantity, however small, Is beucath H notice." Learning that there was n H store In Bermuda, ami that tho lslund H era were anxious to havo the embargo H lifted upon shipment of food supplies H from Uio colonies, Washington addrew- H ed a letter to tho people of tho Island, IH who hnd shown themselves synipu- jH tlietle with tho American revolution nisil Ists, promising them nmplo supply of iH provisions and "ovcry other mark of tH affection and friendship which Uio iH grateful citizens of a free country can lassl bestow on Its brethren nnd benefac- iH tors" If they would make this umtmi- jH nltlon nvallabto for tho Continental army. jl It so happened that the powder had iH been procured before the letter was 'rH delivered, and with It the Continental H army compelled tho British to cvacu H ate Boston. $ Not only tho sale ot tho powder, but H tho fuct thut Bermuda allowed the colonies to. havo .salt, so Incensed Its governor that ho upbraided the citizens 'fliH for treason, nnd feeling rnn so high K thnt he was removed. His successor fH was, n nativo of Salem, Maso., whose laH loyalty to tho mother country wns such rK that ho gave up lurgo estates In tho iKl colonics rather thun Join tho re vol u- SHI tloulsts. Ho was connected, both by fBi blood and by marriage, with tho Win- jK throp family. Under his rule the Is- JH land's full allegiance to England wns sBK restored. 9HS Browne wns succcodcd, by Henry !9 Hamilton, during whoso administration B tho town of Hamilton was founded and HH named for him. This town today Is flEH thu scat of the Island government. It jBfl has fl population of lej than ..'1.000. jUl It did not become tho capital ot the .jUfl islands until tho time of Sir Jamos il Cockbtirn, lord chief Justice of Ung- fiH land, and lioforo that tlmo one of Its nH most famous lawyers. Cockbum, near- iH ly threo quarters of a century ago, SflK I made the plen of Insanity, which saved Hfl Hie llfo of Daniel McNnugbten. who ' shot Sir Hubert Peel's &etrotary. XB |