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“...though the roads are good, the distances are short, and in the small islands the roads are either tod indifferent or too hilly for comfort. They should, moreover, make the fullest enquiries as to the supply of spare parts suitable for their cars. In Barbados the speed limit is fixed at twenty miles an hour in the country and eight miles in town; while in British Guiana, Jamaica, and Trinidad the driver is only compelled to drive with safety and to observe the usual police traffic regulations. In Bermuda motor-cars are entirely .banned, and there are many who think this a great advantage....”
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“...MORE GENERAL INFORMATION 27 AMERICA—BAHAMAS AND BERMUDA New York Miami J 700 I Bermuda | 187 | Bahamas New York NEW YORK—WEST INDIES New York Bahamas Cuba 1435 St. Thomas 967 1528 2246 '*'479 35 St. Croix £020 150 119 | St. Kitts 1279 718 I Porto Rico For distances beyond St. Kitts see Intercolonial Route. St. John, N.B. CANADA—WEST INDIES Halifax, N.S. Bahamas Jamaica 665" “ 283 Halifax, N.S. 135* 1043 760 Bermuda 2247 1968 1685 925 | St. Kitts 2912 896 1561 B. Honduras For distances beyond St. Kitts see Intercolonial Route. CUSTOMS. Personal baggage is exempt from duty in the West Indies, and the customs officials in British Guiana, British Honduras, and all the islands, whatever their nationality may be, are courteous and considerate. There is unfortunately a remarkable absence of uniform- ity about the customs’ duties, each island having its own tariff, which includes specific duties on certain articles, and a general ad valorem duty—that is to say, a duty of a certain fixed sum...”
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“...An Account of a West Indian Sanatorium.” * By Geo. J. H. Sutton Moxly. London : Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1886. “ Cavaliers and Roundheads in Barbados.” * By N. Darnell Davis. Georgetown, British Guiana, 1887. “ Annals of Codrington College.” By T. H. Bindley, D.D. London : The West India Committee, 1910. " The Barbados Handbook.” By E. Goulburn Sinckler. Published by order of the Legislature. London : Duckworth and Co., 1914. Bermuda " The Historye of the Bermudaes or Summer Islands.” * Hakluyt Series, 1882. '• All About Bermuda.” By John J. Bushell. Bermuda: The Colonist Building, 1911. * Out of print, but can be seen at various libraries....”
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“...telegraphic communi- cation with the outside world by cables or wireless, land in some cases by both. The cable companies operating in the Caribbean area are the Pacific Cable Board (Queen Anne’s Chambers, Tothill Street, Westminster), the West Indian and Panama Telegraph Company, Ltd. (Spencer House, South Place, London), ;the Cuba Submarine Telegraphic Company (58, Old Broad Street, London), and the Direct West India Cable (Company, Ltd. (33, Old Broad Street, London), which pwns a cable between Bermuda, Turks Islands, and [Jamaica that works in conjunction with a cable between...”
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“...34 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES Halifax, N.S., and Bermuda (mark messages “ via Bermuda The general rate per word between most of the British West Indian islands or British Guiana and the United Kingdom is 2S. 2d. per Word, or is. id. per word for “ deferred ” messages. Week-end telegrams of 20 words or less can be sent for Iis. 8d., and 7d. for each word in excess of 20. The rate for messages between the British West Indies or British Guiana and Canada or the United States is from is. 1 \d. to 2S. per word, with half rates deferred. POSTAL SERVICES. There is frequent mail com- munication between the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States and the West Indies. From England, since the suspension of the contract mail service in 1915, mails have been despatched by the steamers of the Harrison Line, Elders and Fyffes Ltd., and the French and Dutch lines ; also via Canada and the United States, and to Jamaica by the vessels of Messrs. Elders and Fyffes. From Canada mails are despatched...”
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“... labourers until 1840, while 1 £20,000,000 was voted as compensation to the slave I owners at the Cape, in Mauritius, and in the West I Indies, the proportion allotted to the latter colonies I being £16,640,000, a figure which fell short of the value I of the slaves as appraised by the Commissioners by I £26,460,000. The capital invested in land, cultivation, ■buildings, and machinery upon the estates on which [slaves were located could not have been less than [£80,000,000. Antigua and also Bermuda dispensed jwith the apprenticeship system altogether, and it was fin no case continued after 1838. Slavery was abolished jin the French colonies in 1848, in the Dutch West Undies in 1863, in Porto Rico in 1873, and in St. Thomas Sin 1876. The slaves were gradually emancipated in ICuba by an Act of the Spanish Senate of December 24th, ;i879> which took effect on February 18th, 1880, and [the total abolition of slavery in that island was brought (about by a decree dated October 6th, 1886. I After...”
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“...Chapter III THE BERMUDAS " The still vex’d Bermoothes ” " The Tempest,” Shakespeare. The Bermudas or Somers’ Islands, more popularly known as Bermuda, are not in the West Indies; but as so many touring steamers visit them on their way to and from the Caribbean Sea the inclusion of an account of them in the present volume requires no justification. The Bermudas consists of a group of about three hundred small islands lying in the shape of a sickle in the Western Atlantic in latitude 3a0 15' N. and longi- < tude 64° 51' W.f about 580 miles to the east of Cape Hatteras, and 667 miles from New York. They are all of coral formation, and are described in the report on the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger * as a coral atoll “ situ- ated on the summit of a large cone with a wide base, rising from the submerged plateau of the Atlantic.” Their total estimated area is 19 square miles, or less than one-eighth of that of the county of Rutland. The principal island, generally known as the Main Island, near...”
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“...the inhabitants are consequently depen- dent upon the rainfall for drinking water. The whole chain is comparatively flat, the highest elevation being 245 feet only. The islands are divided into nine parishes —namely, St. George’s, Hamilton, Smith’s, Devonshire, Pembroke (in which the capital is situated), Paget, Warwick, Southampton, and Sandys. The total popu- lation is about 22,500, of whom nearly half axe white- many being the descendants of the early colonists1—and the remainder coloured. Bermuda is the headquarters of the North America and West Indies station. The Commander-in-Chief spends several months of the year in residence at Admiralty House, and the presence of the Fleet during the winter season contributes greatly to the social life of the colony. INDUSTRIES. The early settlers in the Bermudas were planters, and the inhabitants followed agricultural pursuits until the abrogation of the charter of the Somer Islands Company in 1684 {see p. 46), when they took to trading. In vessels...”
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“...variety abound in the waters surrounding I the islands, and form the basis of a profitable local industry. I Green and hawksbill turtle are also caught. In recent years Bermuda has steadily grown in popularity I as a winter resort, and large undertakings incidental to the I development of the tourist business have been launched. Sixty- I four per cent, of the annual revenue is derived from tins I r industry.” The United States and Canada furnish most of I the visitors. In winter Bermuda, which has come to be known I as the “ Riviera of the West,” attracts many wealthy and I prominent Americans, while in summer the islands are becoming I increasingly patronised by tourists with holidays of only a few I weeks’ duration, who find their scenery and ways in pleasing I contrast to those to which they are accustomed. CLIMATE. Bermuda is justly famed for its climate, which, I though less equable than that of the islands within the tropics, [is particularly charming during the winter months, when the...”
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“...colonies; but in February, 1652, the Governor and Council took the oath of allegiance and the ban was removed. Before passing from the history of the Bermudas the reader may be reminded that the islands were immortalised by Shakespeare, who no doubt derived his inspiration for the opening scenes of “ The Tempest,” in which he refers to the " still vex’d Bermoothes,” from the shipwreck of Sir George : Somers, two years previously. CONSTITUTION. Next to the House of Commons the House of Assembly of Bermuda is the oldest legislative body of the kind in the British Empire. Representative government was introduced into the colony in 1620, or one year only after the Assembly of Virginia—the first in the British colonies—was established. The Governors have, since 1684, been appointed by the Crown, and the laws are enacted by a local legislature consisting of the Governor, a Legislative Council of nine members, three of whom are official and six unofficial, and a House of Assembly, com- prising thirty-six...”
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“...THE BERMUDAS 47 I 8s. a day for each day’s attendance, a negligible fee compared [ with that paid to legislators in Great Britain. Governor General Sir John Asser, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. ACCOMMODATION1. Bermuda has hotels and boarding (houses to suit all tastes. The prices quoted below are the | minimum rates per day for board and lodging. Hamilton. Hotel Bermudiana, overlooking the harbour, Ig.oo ; Hamilton Hotel, on the hill-side above the city, $7.00 ; Princess Hotel, at the west end of the city, so called after H.R.H. I Princess Louise, who visited Bermuda in 1883, $7.00 ; American [House, Imperial Hotel, and Hotel Langton, $6.00 ; New Windsor ‘ and Colonial Hotels, $5*5° » Royal Prince, $1.00 (rooms only). Pembroke. Grasmere-by-the-Sea, f5.00. Devonshire. The Poincianas. $8.00. Paget. Hotel Inverurie, $6.00. Warwick, j Belmont Manor, $6.00. Flatts. Hotel Frascati, f 6.00. St. ' George’s. The St. George Hotel, on the Rose Hill property, I once owned by Governor Tucker, $6.00 per...”
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“... riding, cycling, cricket, and clay-pigeon shooting. Foremost among the many clubs devoted to sport besides those mentioned above are the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, founded by Mr. Samuel Triscot in 1841, the Hamilton Dinghy Club, the St. George’s Yacht Club, the Bermuda Boat and Canoe Club, the Bermuda Athletic Association, the Bermuda and Garrison Hunt Club, and the Bermuda Tennis Club, as well as many others throughout the colony devoted to the encouragement of cricket, football, etc. SIGHTS. The first land which visitors to Bermuda usually sight is the eastern end of St. George’s and St. David’s Head on the island of the same name. Some nine miles from the shore is the projecting pinnacle of rock known as North Bock on which a light has now been placed. “ It consists,” wrote Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales, who visited Bermuda in 1880, in The Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante,” ■ " of three or four jagged brown sandstone teeth, that stand up a dozen or fifteen feet above the...”
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“...the wharves, and in Queen Street, which leads to the Hamilton Hotel. Turning to the right along Front Street on landing at the wharf one comes to a square, green with many trees, among which is a cedar planted by Prince Alfred, afterwards Duke of Edinburgh, the uncle of King George V, when he visited Bermuda in 1862. A monument in the square perpetuates the memory of William Reid, Governor from 1839 to 1846, who was the first to call attention to the agricultural possibilities of the Bermudas. It is inscribed: ft Erected A.D. MDCCCLXI By authority of the legislature in grateful REMEMBRANCE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES AND PRIVATE worth of Major-Genl. Sir William Reid, K.C.B., Governor of Bermuda from 1839 to 1846....”
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“...Jones. The Cathedral is a handsome edifice built of native limestone faced with Caen stone for the doors and win- lows. The tower (144 feet high) is partly built of Nova Icotia freestone. The total cost was about $200,000. I The foundation-stone of the palatial Hamilton Hotel jpas laid with full Masonic honours by Captain Charles Elliott, R.N., the then Governor of Bermuda, in August, ^852, but the hotel was not opened until 1863. Since Ihat year it has received many additions, and it may Aow be considered one of the best hotels in this part ffj the world. Opposite the hotel is the Mechanics’ Ball, built in 1850 to house the Bermuda Mechanics’ Beneficial Association. On the left-hand side of Queen ftreet are the grounds of Par la Ville, in which there...”
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“...52 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES is a famous rubber tree. In the former residence is the Museum of the Bermuda Natural History Society (open io a.m. to 4 p.m., Sundays excepted). Here also is the Public Library. The north end of Burnaby Street is called Cedar Avenue, a delightfully shady walk skirting one side of Victoria Park, an ornamental garden containing many beautiful flowering shrubs and trees, a somewhat con- ventional bandstand erected to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, which was formally opened in 1890, and a War Memorial to the memory of members of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps who fell during the. Great War, 19x4-1918. A continuation of the road leads to St. John’s, the parish church of Pembroke Parish. In it lie the remains of Bishop Field and Sir Robert Laffan, Governor from 1877 to 1882, whose name survives in “ Laffan’s Plain,” Aldershot. Mount Langton the Governor’s residence (about 1 mile from the wharf), is reached by way of Burnaby Street and Cedar Avenue...”
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“...miles by road; 2 hours (by carriage). Steamers of the Bermuda Transportation «Company perform the journey under contract with the local Government for the conveyance of the mails, and {call also at Boaz Island and Mangrove Bay, Somerset I Island. Leaving the wharf the steamers pass among an archipelago of islets through Two Rock Passage into the {Great Sound. Oxford Point is passed on the right, with sa quaint monument of tools, bayonets, and iron hoops (erected by the men of the 56th Regiment, now the 2nd I Battalion of the Essex Regiment, who were isolated there ’during an outbreak of yellow fever. On approaching [Ireland Island, the Commissioner’s House on East i Point is a conspicuous obj ect. In a sheltered position off ithe island lies a huge Floating Dock with a length over 1 all of 545 ft., breadth 126 ft. 2 ins., and an extreme lifting power of 17,500 tons. This mammoth dock was built at fWallsend-on-Tyne and was towed to Bermuda by power- jful tugs in the early summer of 1902, the...”
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“...54 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES of the fortifications in the islands. When the North America and West Indies fleet was replaced by a special Cruiser Squadron in pursuance of the policy of the “ Blue* water ” school, the dockyard became less busy than it used to be ; but it is now more resorted to again. There is much of interest to be seen. In the twin towers of the main building are two clocks—one to tell the time of day and the other that of high tide. A slab bears the inscription: Bermuda Yard Latitude xxxii°. xix'. i". n. Longitude lxiv°. u'. xxxvi'. w. By Captain Owen, R.N. Visitors should on no account omit to ask their cicerone to point out the old ship’s bell óf the Shannon, an inter- esting souvenir of the memorable engagement between that vessei and the American frigate Chesapeake off Boston on June ist, 18x3. It hangs in a niche m the wall near by. After a desperate encoimter lasting eleven minutes, during which Captain Philip Vere Broke of the Shannon was disabled, and Captain...”
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“...very well worth climbing for the sake of the superb views that it affords of the Sound on one side ' and Castle Harbour on the other. Near by is Shark’s Hole, another interesting cave over which the road ■èse^s, and proceeding farther one comes to the famous ■valsingham Caves, which well repay a visit. It was itWalsingham that Ireland’s poet, Tom Moore, resided Pr a few months when he was Registrar of the Vice- ■dmiralty Court. A fascimile of his house was erected K Wembley to accommodate the Bermuda exhibits at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 and 1925. Tom lloore did not remain long in the islands, but delegated Ks duties to another man. The poet’s calabash tree is also pointed out to visitors. Near the house are the ieamington Caves, and a little farther on the Crystal Paves, perhaps the finest in the island. In the same Neighbourhood there are also the scarcely less famous...”
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“...Town the road traverses the Mid-Ocean Golf jCourse (see page 48). The beach and natural arch at I Tucker’s Town merit inspection. The first place of interest reached is Peniston’s Pond (2 miles), a brackish lake apparently separated from, but, really communi- icating with, the sea by underground channels. Near ;by is the historic Spanish Rock inscribed : F + 1543 H which is shown to prove that the Portuguese Ferdinando (jCamelo, to whom reference is made above (see page 45), .factually visited Bermuda. The military road between "Tucker’s Town and Spanish Rocks is claimed to be—...”
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“...i 62 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES and the Bermuda Almanack is quoted—an “ unrivalled seaside drive." Visitors to Bermuda wishing to explore the islands to the best advantage should, on arrival, put themselves in communication with the Bermuda Trade Develop- ment Board at Hamilton which is glad to furnish reliable information regarding the Colony. In the eighteenth century superstitious bluejackets on the West Indies station believed that the Bermudas were floating on the ocean. There were no real grounds for such a remarkable theory. Those beautiful islands are securely anchored to the bed of the Atlantic, and tc the hearts of those who have been fortunate enough tc visit them....”