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Actually, the French West Indies (FWI), or Antilles Françaises as they’re called in France, are not at all a neat geographical cluster.
marcgraviospsis species for boils and a leaf poultice of Monstera subpinnata for leg pain, as a vesicant and to cauterize wounds [ 15 103 ] . Monstera species accumulate derivatives of caffeic acid [ 102 ] . Monstera pertusa stem fragments were carried in the Antilles as a charm to ward off poisonous snakes, and is applied with cotton to snakebite wounds [ 103 ] .
Boom turned to bust, however, with cheaper sugar production from Brazil and the Antilles, and the industry died.
By 1674, when Louis XIV took formal control of the islands from the debt-ridden commercial administrators, Martinique had become France’s colonial capital in the Lesser Antilles.
In the rest of The Bounty , Walcott relinquishes such allusive density for the simple, history-erasing realities of life in the Antilles islands: the mango trees that "serenely rust when they are in flower," the firefly that "keeps striking matches."