# A High Wind in Jamaica

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-high-wind-in-jamaica/259532>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 12, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-high-wind-in-jamaica/259532 "2004-08-12T14:25:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-high-wind-in-jamaica/259532/1 "2004-08-12T14:25:07Z")

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By Richard Hughes.

I just picked this book up from our works communal book shelf. I want to read it but the first page is missing. Is it any good? If I type the first few sentences could someone (who has the book) please type in the bit that I am missing? Here is wher the book starts for me -

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> -into another basin, thence to be distilled into rum.  
> This, at any rate, is how it used to be done. I know nothing of modern methods - or if here are any, never having visited the island since 1860, which is a long time ago now.

I am thinking I can print off the missing text, cut it to size and leave it tucked inside the book when I return it.

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**Author:** ![smam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@smam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smam)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-high-wind-in-jamaica/259532/2 "2004-08-13T16:10:12Z")

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One last _bump_ for the sweet souvenir.