“Arriving at Dominica the seventeenth of October, with all our men sicke and feeble, wee
 found there two hote bathes, wherein our weake men washing themselves were greatly
 comforted: and the Indians of this place used us with  great kindnesse, so that we were all
 perfectly well before we departed from this place.” ‘Sir Anthony Sherley, calling in at Prince
 Rupert’s Bay with nine storm-racked ships and their miserable crews in 1596, logged one of the
 earliest records of Dominican hospitality:’
 Excerpt from ‘The Dominica Story’ by Lennox Honychurch