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  • At the south end of the island, the Segond Channel was so crowded with warships that, according to legend, one could walk deck-to-deck from Santo to the nearby island of Aore.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • At the south end of the island, the Segond Channel was so crowded with warships that, according to legend, one could walk deck-to-deck from Santo to the nearby island of Aore.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • On Oct. 26, 1942, the Coolidge, fully loaded, was coming into Segond Channel when it hit an American mine, quickly sank — with a miraculously small loss of life — and came to rest, at an angle, in 100 to 240 feet of water.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • At the south end of the island, the Segond Channel was so crowded with warships that, according to legend, one could walk deck-to-deck from Santo to the nearby island of Aore.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • On Oct. 26, 1942, the Coolidge, fully loaded, was coming into Segond Channel when it hit an American mine, quickly sank — with a miraculously small loss of life — and came to rest, at an angle, in 100 to 240 feet of water.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • On Oct. 26, 1942, the Coolidge, fully loaded, was coming into Segond Channel when it hit an American mine, quickly sank — with a miraculously small loss of life — and came to rest, at an angle, in 100 to 240 feet of water.

    A Pacific Theater of Memories Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • America was essentially a white man's doctrine, and in Brazil it was used as an intellectual weapon by those who overthrew Emperor Pedro II; it is interesting to note that Segond speaks with admiration and affection of the Emperor and laments the ill treatment to which the Negroes, for whom he felt a liking, were subjected.

    POSITIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA RONALD HILTON 1968

  • Segond, gave up his academic career to become an operatic tenor, and in 1857 his company visited Brazil.

    POSITIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA RONALD HILTON 1968

  • I had not yet solved the problem of how to get away from the Segond

    Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

  • As the natives around the French plantations at the Canal du Segond are practically exterminated, I saw hardly any; but at least I got a good insight into the life on a plantation, such as it was.

    Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

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