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The name Jamaica comes from a word of the Arawak Indians, "Xaymaca," meaning land of wood and water. The words barbecue, canoe, hurricane, potato and tobacco come from the language of the first colonists of Jamaica, the Arawak Indians. Bananas, a crop for which Jamaica became famous, were brought from the Canary Islands in the sixteenth century. Port Royal, a centre of piracy and the slave trade, called "the wickedest city of the world" was destroyed by earthquake in 1692 and sank beneath the sea. A High Wind in Jamaica, Lord of the Flies and Treasure Island are among films made on location in Jamaica.

The ancestors of the Indian people of Jamaica were brought to the island to work on the sugar plantations in place of the freed African slaves. Rum is the national drink of Jamaica; the island was the world's first commercial producer of rum. Today, the sugar industry is the highest employer in Jamaica - in the eighteenth century the island was the world's largest sugar producer. Jamaica is divided into regions called parishes, some of which take their names from towns and counties in England: Manchester, Westmoreland, Cornwall, and Middlesex for example.