Windward Isles

The tune is "John Dead", a sea song "collected" – as they say in folk circles – from St Vincent in the Windward Isles.

The Unthanks 2010

Many stayed at the Windward Isles, having not enough to pay their engagements, and at Tortuga and among the French buccaneers; still I forebore to make use of my power, hoping their hardships and great hazards would in time reclaim them from that course of life.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

And so it happened that before the Arabella came homing to Tortuga in the following May to refit and repair -- for she was not without scars, as you conceive -- the fame of her and of Peter Blood her captain had swept from the Bahamas to the Windward Isles, from New Providence to Trinidad.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

Barbadoes, by reason of its outpost location to the east of the Windward Isles, is the first to catch incoming vessels from England, and is therefore a focus of steamship lines and a distributing point for the southern archipelago, so that we find here the greatest density of any island in the West

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

The "Stars-and-Stripes" had sailed, had been spoken with about the Windward Isles -- and never heard of afterwards.

John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

The first of the new boys to get a chance will be Johnson Charles, a right-handed batsman who plays for the Windward Isles; he will open the batting with Devon Smith.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Alan Tyers 2011

It's in the Southern Caribbean, just east of the Windward Isles, and it is its own nation, not part of an island chain.

Techdirt 2009

It's in the Southern Caribbean, just east of the Windward Isles, and it is its own nation, not part of an island chain.

Techdirt 2009

They’ve got DNA, and they’ve traced it to a black guy from the Windward Isles of the Caribbean, although no specific black guy.

Operation Minstead, I’ve got someone you should meet « raincoaster 2006

Here the small islands of the Venezuelan coast, often in sight, lured these peoples of river and shore to open-sea navigation, and drew them first to the Windward Isles, then northward step by step or island by island, to Hayti and Cuba. [

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897