Helena Ford was to start university at the end of summer and had persuaded Daddy that he should let her have a holiday to remember in the Caribbean before the start of fall semester. XXX There were chapters on the island’s ‘discovery’ by the Spanish and on the later disputes between the French and the English over its ownership. Thomson now spoke for the fist time “Its the ship that’s unlucky, not us.”
“What d’you mean?” asked Pierre. They stared in confusion at the tearful American teenager with red peeling skin and dusty tangled blonde hair. However her father, concerned that his slim blonde haired daughter might be vulnerable to a holiday romance, arranged for her uncle and aunt to go along too, much to Helena’s dismay. It described the foul stench that emanated from ships in the slave trade, making them immediately recognisable to any other vessel to leeward.
