CAIMAN ISLANDS, certain American islands lying south of Cuba, and north-west of Jamaica, between 81^{\circ} and 86^{\circ} of west longitude, and in 21 of north latitude. They are most remarkable on account of the fishery

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fishery of tortoise, which the people of Jamaica catch here, and carry home alive, keeping them in pens for food, and killing them as they want them.