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Home to just three hundred people, MIDDLE CAICOS is the country's largest island and one of its quietest. Despite the abundance of great beaches, especially at Mudjin Harbour near Conch Bar and further east at Bambarra , tourist development has been very slow and there are few facilities for visitors; you'll find just a handful of guesthouses and a couple of taxi drivers. If you're after peace and quiet, you couldn't find many better refuges in the country. Middle Caicos was settled by Lucayan Indians between the eighth century and around 1540, by which time Spanish slave traders had killed or shipped off the local population for servitude in South American mines. The island remained uninhabited until Loyalists and their slaves arrived from North America after the Revolution.
As elsewhere in the islands, the
settlers' attempts at growing cotton made little progress and,
within a generation, the settlers departed, leaving their former
slaves to run the three north coast settlements that survive today.
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