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“...50 mins., Monos 1 hour 30 mins., Gasparee 1 hour 10 mins., and Chacachacare 2 hours 10 mins. Full particulars regarding times of sailing, etc., can be obtained at the Railway Station. Motor-launches and boats can be hired at reasonable rates. Communication with Tobago is maintained by the Govern- ment s.s. Belize, a miniature liner whose itinerary will be found on page 144. . To those wishing to see the Orinoco River, opportunity is afforded by the comfortable river boats of the Compania Anonima di Navegafion fluvial y Costanesa de Venezuela, which proceed every week to Ciudad Bolivar, whence smaller boats convey such passengers as may desire to proceed farther, to the upper reaches of the river. . 'v. SPORTS. Lawn tennis is played on the courts of the Tranquillity Club (near the Queen’s Park Hotel), and the St. Clair Club, whose members are always glad to extend hospitality to visitors suitably introduced. At the St. Clair Club bridge and dancing can also be enjoyed. Cricket is popular....”
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“...Oldmixon as far back as 1708. The natives, he said, tell all strangers “ a Jtrange Tale of a vajt monjtrous Serpent, that had its Abode in the before-mentioned Bottom (an inaccessible Bottom among the high mountains). They affirm’d, there was in the Head of it a very /parkling Stone, like a Carbuncle of ine/timable Price ; that the Mon/ter commonly veil’d that rich Jewel with a thin moving skin, like that of a Man’s Eyelid, and when it went to drink or/ported it/elf in the deep Bottom, it fully di/cover’d it, and the Rocks all about receiv’d a wonderful Lu/tre from the Fire i/fuing out of that precious Gem.” There is a rude shelter by the side of the lake, where ponies can be tied up while the visitor proceeds afoot to the famous Rosalie View. Here there is one of the most magnificent vistas in the West Indies. From a fore- ground of tall tree-ferns, rubber trees, and a wealth of tropical foliage, stretch eight or nine miles of densely wooded valley and mountain, ending in the dim and blue...”
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“...is Dead-man’s Chest, immortalised by R. L. Stevenson in ‘‘Treasure Island," though he never visited it: Fifteen men on The Dead Man’s Chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum ! This rock, when seen from a distance, appears a flat surface, almost level with the surface of the water; but on a nearer approach, it assumes a regular shape, which has been compared by one of the Spanish Fathers who first visited the country, to a table with a coffin lying upon it; whence it has its name, in Spanish el Casa di Muerti, which means nothing more than a coffin, but, literally translated, is the Dead-man’s chest, its present English name.—Waller’s “Voyage in the West Indies, 1820.” Describing the amenities of these islands in The West India Committee Circular in 1921, Mr John Levo wrote : One can imagine no better holiday for a fisherman than cruising in a motor-boat between the islands, with a tent for shore of nights, with food and conversation enriched from the day’s...”
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“...parish. Oracabessa (51^ miles) is a small town but an important fruit centre. The name is said to be derived from Cabeza de oro, the " Golden'head.” Ocho Rios (64! miles) is a small town with a well- protected harbour of growing importance. The name has been interpreted to mean “ eight rivers,” but it is more probably derived from chon era, a spout, after the waterfall near by. It was here that Sasi, the Spanish Governor who had given up the island to Penn and Venables in 1655» landed again and was defeated by Governor Doyley in 1657. Sasi, whose camp had been " in a swampy place ” (now identified with Shaw Park estate), retreated to a bay about eight miles to the west, which has ever since been called “ Runaway Bay,” and here he embarked in a canoe and made good his escape. The Fern Gully and the Roaring River Falls can be visited from Ocho Rios or taken en route to Moneague, Ewarton, and Kingston (see next page). St. Ann’s Bay (71J miles) is the Santa Gloria of Columbus. Here, says Mr...”
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“...West Indian family, and James Blake (1753). From Falmouth to Montego Bay (see page 286) the distance is 22 miles. From Bog Walk on the Port Antonio line a branch line of the railway runs to Ewarton (17J miles, one hour). From there an enjoyable expedition can be made over Mount Diablo (10 miles) to Moneague, whence a drive may be taken through the famous Fern Gully to Ocho Rios and the Roaring River Falls. The road over Mount Diablo, or Diavolo, affords superb views of the Blue Mountains. Fern Gully is a natural gorge of surpassing beauty, with steep sides covered with ferns, through which a winding road runs towards Ocho Rios. Sir Harry Johnston described the gully, which he was largely instrumental in saving from vandal banana growers, in the following terms, to the writer: “ It is an amazing botanical exhibit, with about twenty-five different species of ferns, tree-ferns here and there at the top, ferns with immense fronds, filmy creeping ferns, ferns with fronds...”
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“...THE SPANISH MAIN 403 Port Limon. A railway runs from Port Limon to San José and the Pacific coast. The stations on the line are as follows : Limon Miles. Height Feet. II Peralta . Miles. • 54*2 Height Feet. 1055 Moin Junction 3-5 Turrialba . 62 5 2037 Zent Junction Matina 20 *4 21 *9 55 Tucumque Juan Vinas . 68-7 • 73*8 3286 Madre di Dios 28-7 Santiago . 78-1 3536 Indiana Junction 35-7 Paraiso . • 85-4 4392 Siquirres 36-7 196 Cartago . . 89-4 4760 La Junta . 38-6 187 El Alto . . 92 *2 5137 Florida 43*o Tres Rios . 96-0 4362 Las Lamas . 45*2 879 San José . 102*1 3868 SIGHTS. Some two hours after leaving Colon, steamers coasting along the Spanish Main pass Porto Bello, a former Spanish stronghold. Porto Bello was peopled with the inhabitants of Nombre de Dios in 1584, when that city was virtually abandoned after being repeatedly raided by the Indians. As the chief Atlantic entrepót of the trade of Peru it attained a position of great wealth and affluence, and was very strongly fortified...”
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“...INDEX 484 Nisbet, Mrs. F. H., 231, 238 Nisky, 326, 327 Nombre de Dios, 401, 403, 404, 418 Nonpareil, 376 Norman Island, 253 North America and West Indies Station, 44, 45 North Rock, Bermuda, 48 Nova Scotia, Bank of, 12, 265 Nueva Andalucia, 400, 418 Nueva Gerona, 364 Nugent, Dr. Nicholas, 446 Nugent, Lady, 30, 280 Nutmegs, 155, 167 Ocho Rios, 287, 288 O’Donnell, Governor-General, 348 Ogston, Maurice, 135 Oil. See Petroleum Oistin’s Town, Barbados, 105 Old Harbour, 260, 290 Oldmixon, 245 Oliph Bios some, the, 76, 108, 170 Olive, M„ 306 Olivier, Lord, 265 Omai, 388 Onderneeming, 387 O’Neil, General, 394 Oracabessa, 287 Orange Bay, 260 Orange Town, 342 Orange Walk, 393, 395 Orderson, Rev. T. D., 100, 101 Oregön, warship, 420 Oriente, 345 Orinoco River, 120, 374, 400 Oropouche, 114, 144 Orr, Major C. W. j„ 66 Oruba, 339, 341 Ostriches, 341 Otaheite, 190 Otrabanda, 340 Ottley Hall Estate, 193 Ottley, Mrs. Elizabeth, 205 " Our Lady of Loretto," 130 Ouvenard, Madame, 242 Oxford Caves, 290 Oxford...”