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Indies: see East Indies East Indies, name formerly used for the Malay Archipelago , but also more restrictively for Indonesia and more widely to include SE Asia. It once referred chiefly to India. ..... Click the link for more information. ; West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. ..... Click the link for more information. . Indies the 1. the territories of S and SE Asia included in the East Indies, India, and Indochina 2. See East Indies 3. See West Indies How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the chair sits a man of strong and sturdy frame, whose face has been roughened by northern tempests and blackened by the burning sun of the West Indies. With these I carried a tailor, who had offered himself to go a passenger to the East Indies with my nephew, but afterwards consented to stay on our new plantation, and who proved a most necessary handy fellow as could be desired in many other businesses besides that of his trade; for, as I observed formerly, necessity arms us for all employments. --Mr Edward has come to England from the West Indies. |
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