286 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
This list. includes those hurricanes only concerning which Gov: 
Rawson had reliable information. Probably there were others 
during the period covered by his table. We suppose also that 
many of the hurricanes mentioned visited only a portion of the 
Bahamas. The terrible hurricane which inflicted such serious 
damage upon Nassau in August, 1866, desolated many other 
islands, and damaged and destroyed a very large number of ves- 
sels. The recent hurricane that caused such a destruction of 
property in Jamaica, and wrecked the steamer Vera Cruz in the 
Gulf of Florida, with great loss of life, must have been felt to 
some extent on the island of New Providence. Very favorable 
official reports have since been received from Nassau in regard to 
the health of that city. 
