Excerpt from The Standard Guide, Florida Life in Nassau is for the most part repose and light - hearted, care-free indo lence. The principal industries of the Bahamas are sponging and wrecking. In old days the place was a secure stronghold of the famous pirate black-beard, legends of whose escapades, exploits and ferocity still linger about the island. During our Civil War Nassau was headquarters of the blockade runners, who sailed from here to run the blockades of Confederate ports; there were three hun dred such entries and departures in a single year. In those times cotton was king, and the value of Nassau imports and exports amounted in one year to fifty mil lions of dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.