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the finale
Eventually I decided that it is not worth my time (or, more importantly, my money) to call long distance to HI from the hotel - I may as well call ld from the comfort of my own home, so I will put off calling the methodist minister a while longer.
This is probably for the best, as it wound up taking me much much longer to get my mailing done than I'd intended. There was something of a fetch quest involved, and I think I was at the post office about four times. So, if you get Bahamas mail from me, you'd better appreciate it ;)
I had subway for lunch again (it is relatively cheap, and close), and then headed to the archives,. As i said, there wasn't anything I *needed* to find at this point, but a few things I wanted to see. I would up copying the proclamation from 1788 (I think) when the king officially bought out all the Proprietary land claims. This is a nice bit of closure for me, since I like the proprietary period and the lasting chaos they inflicted on land tenure. It is also interesting because it gave anyone who had a grant from the proprietors or their leasees (that would be Woodes Rogers or the Bahama Company) a yer to show (and thus validate) their claim, or their land would be declared officially vacant and thus could be granted again to someone else. n I shoul say that there were place, I think mostly on Harbour Island and Eleuthera, where the land was never actually officially granted. People just always lived there. The other helpful thing I found was the grant to lord Dunmore (who was governor) for the town of Dunmore on HI. See above re: 'vacant' land, chaotic land tenure, etc. It was actually a grant to Lord Dunmore 'and some 130 others', which I found interesting. Anyway, I now have read it, I have notes, all is good. The other thing I found that is interesting but not important at all is the articles of the surrender of the islands to Spain under Maxwell in 178...something. I didn't write it down, but I had wanted to see it, and to see what all was recorded during the brief Spanish period. The answer: not much. Of course they were only there about a year max...
It was raining when I walked back from the archives. It wasn't raining hard though, so I wasn't actually wet. It was sort of, not nice maybe, but fitting? last year there was a downpour every afternoon as I headed home, but this was the first time my whole trip where it's rained much while I was outside. It sprinkled a bit when I was at Preacher's Cave, I suppose. So, the second, then.
I treated myself to some cocnut maccaroon ice cream, in a sugar cone (it is always ice cream weather), then came back to the room to unwind a bit. Headed out for dinner eventually. Still aiming on the cheap side, I went to Sbarro, where I got some curry. It was surprisingly spicy for fast food, and I think that an American joint wouldn't have been as accepting of all the bones in the chicken. But hey, that's curry! It was pretty good, in any case.
And then, a night in. I'd planned to go out wandering some along the beach, but it was still inda blah and rainy, so I came home, chatted, watched some internet videos and packed. And now I'm showered and lying in bed and my alarm is set, and I think I'm good to go tomorrow! I should go to sleep, but I'm still puttering about the internet.... sooon.
This is probably for the best, as it wound up taking me much much longer to get my mailing done than I'd intended. There was something of a fetch quest involved, and I think I was at the post office about four times. So, if you get Bahamas mail from me, you'd better appreciate it ;)
I had subway for lunch again (it is relatively cheap, and close), and then headed to the archives,. As i said, there wasn't anything I *needed* to find at this point, but a few things I wanted to see. I would up copying the proclamation from 1788 (I think) when the king officially bought out all the Proprietary land claims. This is a nice bit of closure for me, since I like the proprietary period and the lasting chaos they inflicted on land tenure. It is also interesting because it gave anyone who had a grant from the proprietors or their leasees (that would be Woodes Rogers or the Bahama Company) a yer to show (and thus validate) their claim, or their land would be declared officially vacant and thus could be granted again to someone else. n I shoul say that there were place, I think mostly on Harbour Island and Eleuthera, where the land was never actually officially granted. People just always lived there. The other helpful thing I found was the grant to lord Dunmore (who was governor) for the town of Dunmore on HI. See above re: 'vacant' land, chaotic land tenure, etc. It was actually a grant to Lord Dunmore 'and some 130 others', which I found interesting. Anyway, I now have read it, I have notes, all is good. The other thing I found that is interesting but not important at all is the articles of the surrender of the islands to Spain under Maxwell in 178...something. I didn't write it down, but I had wanted to see it, and to see what all was recorded during the brief Spanish period. The answer: not much. Of course they were only there about a year max...
It was raining when I walked back from the archives. It wasn't raining hard though, so I wasn't actually wet. It was sort of, not nice maybe, but fitting? last year there was a downpour every afternoon as I headed home, but this was the first time my whole trip where it's rained much while I was outside. It sprinkled a bit when I was at Preacher's Cave, I suppose. So, the second, then.
I treated myself to some cocnut maccaroon ice cream, in a sugar cone (it is always ice cream weather), then came back to the room to unwind a bit. Headed out for dinner eventually. Still aiming on the cheap side, I went to Sbarro, where I got some curry. It was surprisingly spicy for fast food, and I think that an American joint wouldn't have been as accepting of all the bones in the chicken. But hey, that's curry! It was pretty good, in any case.
And then, a night in. I'd planned to go out wandering some along the beach, but it was still inda blah and rainy, so I came home, chatted, watched some internet videos and packed. And now I'm showered and lying in bed and my alarm is set, and I think I'm good to go tomorrow! I should go to sleep, but I'm still puttering about the internet.... sooon.
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