West Indies, Caribbean (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"“Yes, well, that’s all in the past,” Bradley said. “If it ever existed at all. I mean, all that talk about cannibalism. Everybody knows it is not true. I read a book by some professor. There never were any cannibals, anywhere in the world. It’s all a big myth. Another example of the way the white man demonizes people of color. When Columbus came to the West Indies, he thought they told him there were cannibals there, but it wasn’t true.”"

"the dread of not being able to reach the West Indies, if the only sailor who had hitherto escaped the contagion, and on whom their whole hope rested, should lose his sight, like the rest."

"not only among the Carib races of Guiana, of the Spanish Main, and (where still surviving) of the West Indies."