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Aux Cayes

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Aux Cayes: see Les Cayes Les Cayes , Cayes, or Aux Cayes , town (1990 est. pop. 37,600), SW Haiti, on the Caribbean Sea. Haiti's chief southern port, it handles exports, mainly sugar and coffee.
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[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Cette annee, en Haiti plus d'une centaine de personnes ont pris part a la celebration de la journee mondiale des sages femmes a Port-au-Prince et pros d'une centaine aux Cayes dans le departement du Sud pour exprimer leur solidarite a la cause des femmes et des sages femmes en particulier.
But the late Allen Walker Read proved that OK did not derive from okeh, an affirmative reply in Choctaw; nor from the name of chief Old Keokuk; nor from a fellow named Orrin Kendall, who manufactured a tasty brand of army biscuit for Union soldiers in the Civil War; nor from the Haitian port Aux Cayes, which produced superior rum; nor from open key, a telegraph term; nor from the Greek olla kalla, 'all good.
 
 
 
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