Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1911 — Grenada Was Bought Cheap. [ARTICLE]

Grenada Was Bought Cheap.

The Island- of Grenada, in the British West Indies, was bought by the French from the Caribs by a solemn treaty In the middle of the seventeenth century, and the price paid was two bottles of rum. Esau’s mess of pottage was a good stroke of business by comparison. The Caribs soon regretted -having sold their birthright and vainly tried to get the island back by force. It Is now one of England’s most prosperous colonies in the West Indies.