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77 =7-77- ORONO WEEKLY TIMES, THURSDAV, lIL!ARCII'41st, 196R Letter to the Editor Hamilton, Bermuda, 91 April 1, 1966 Pl Diear Roy: d2 Just another letter to let you'v 1~ the folks back home know th 1; ' at 1 arn well and continuing to l1h ejoy my stay in Bermuda. w 1 want to thank you for print- t ineg my last letter and 1 also want ý( thank those people who were t K m enough to drop me a lune as- resuit of seeing my letter in Výur paper. The longer I stay here, the more interested 1 become in the ýcuntry. It 'is amazing ta find haw much there is to learn about ,d to see in a place whose total z-rea, is not more than 21 square, miles., People who have grown up in z, small town lîke Orono, as I bve, can appreciate' one aspect i)-t Bermudian 1f e more than 'ýcity folks". 1 refer, of course, to ùïe open friendline'ss of people ,htre. When you pass a Bermudian Il the street, you speak to him - j,,st asin a small town, youa know y u'l sec him again somletime Adif you don't know hisý namne &uw, you assume that You Will ,metlme ia the future, A h-appy ~EAure of the, busy downtowfl .astle in the capitalcity of Ham- i on is the repeated sound of /Âices singing out cails of recog- rition and friendship - pedestrian pedèestrian, cyclist to pedest- ù_n, car to pedestran etc, etc. Well this time, I thought you ind your readers might be iater- _sted in just a littie, of the his- itt)y of Bermuda. The story of Yr,,rmada is a fascinating one aand -canT give you but a few gim)psesý d> it. In 1515, a Spanish' sailor namedý- jý (tn e Bermudez is known to, cv seen these islands. Former- i it was thought that they were sýMed after him, -but now it i nnnthat maps as earlv as 151Ù rowed these islads and called-é 2m " La Berluda" So, it is m rore I kely that Bermuda simply de- r-ed to sec the place wihbr nam e s0 similar to bis own. During the niext- centuryv, se%- ~al ships were ro1bably reke ~ithe reso oa ok und the islands, and erudi as given a new namne h se o~Devils." I 1593, the sailors from a jshlip wrecked on the reefs managled)to xeach shore safely insai o noats. Tbese inem survived as 1-ley found plenty of wild pg -rnaminn the islands. The oDr-i igin of these pigs is a source of 3peculation today, but mnost lkl they came froma some earlier si wreck. In addition toa h is the birds ia the trcs and 1,1the fish of the sea provided ahndant feodh "long with the vegetationgr- ing on the islands. Eventually, using- the cedar jvhich once grew'ail over the is- Lnds, these men built a ship anid riled to Canada. In 1609, "The Sea Venture" îlied from England bound for ýýrginia with a group of. colon-ý î,ts under the leadership of Ad- ï-turai Sir George Somers. After ,ro months at sea, they were trught up in a terrible storm zhieh lasted three days. Finally, thefr ship came to rest on some reks near the Bermudas and -thc people all reached land safely sa the small boats. Before the "Sea Venture" broke Up and sank 'he mca managed to remove sup- plies from her, including tools, HOME îHEAT SERVICE REPAIRS AND REMODELLING -Free Estiniates - Eaul F. (Sam) Bruton i Phone 1395 Orono *1 I to lcarn that, the coIQiJts there were suffering a great deal be- cause of the scarcity of game. Sir tuas and gunpýowder. These sp- George Somers effered te sail plies along with the natural aun-baek to Bermuda, kili a quantity iance of food ensured thesr of pigs and return with a supply ,î',A, of ýthese castaways un!il of pork. Soon af ter bis arrivalinl they had built two ships - the "De- Bermuda, Sir Geoge'died. Having [ve.rance" and the "Patience"- buried bis hcart in Bermuda, bis w'hich carried them on te James- men transported Sir George's body awn1 to En gland. In honohr of this Howevcr, upon their arrival at -man, the is]ands , f Bermuda1 [, England. Ia honour of this were, for a time, officially named "the Somers Isles," often writtcîn, iginally, these de fensbes were as "the Sum.mer Itu"or"the baUfltof wothou'tgh 1later tlieY 1-sies of Summner' were 1maýde s-trong by thelle of In 1612, the first g-roup of col- the natu'ral coral im)1eston1e, onists 'was sent eut te Bermuda From the very earliest settfe-, and these people builf their set- ment, slavcry was permitted in [lHement at the eastern end of the Bermuda. However, in January islanids, naming their town S$- 1834, word was receîved that the Geor ge's. The first governor, Imperial Parliament ia London Richard Moore, undertook the had passcd a billthat would a- building of eight forts on high bolish slavery on the first of points around the îslands ln order August the same year. 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