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“...fruit of the passion flower), guavas, limes, mangoes, melons, Avocado pears, pome- granates, sapodillas, shaddocks, and sour sops. In Trinidad, the small oysters which adhere to the roots of the mangrove trees form a novelty, and should be asked for; while in British Guiana it would be rank heresy to ignore the famous “pepper-pot.” The ingredients of this savoury dish are, pork cut into small pieces and fried until brown, a partially roasted fowl also cut up, an onion, a dozen shallots, and a few dry chillies, stirred well in a large earthenware pipkin, locally called a buck-pot. To this is added a sauce consisting of two tablespoonfuls of moist cane sugar, one and a half tablespoonfuls of salt, and a teaspoonful of cayenne pepper mixed well with hot water, with seven to ten tablespoon- fuls of cassareep (the concentrated juice of the bitter cassava) added until the concoction is brown. This is boiled and allowed to simmer for one and...”
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“...things for a fight, and continued in that posture all the day and night.” On arriving at Madeira they were “ verry neare loosing our shippe, the master being unacquainted, and comeing too boldely in near the shoar, in a daingerous place.” On Tuesday, the 18th, they crossed the Tropic of Cancer, and were much diverted by the flying fish, “which, though common at sea, may be a subject of wonder to such as are home-bred . . . they fly in whole shoales, but not very farre, for no sooner are their wings dry, but they drop into theire element, the water. It is usual for them to fly into the shipps. We had one or two come on board our vessell.” On Monday, May 8th, the island of Descada was sighted, “which was a welcome sight to us, who were forced to keepe the pump goeing night and day, by reason of a dangerous leake we had sprung at sea, which we could not finde, and which increasing would have soone beene too much for us, if bad weather had kept us at sea.” The vessel did not finally reach Nevis until...”
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“...Football Club, and La Penitence and Vreed-en-Hoop Tennis Clubs. For “wet bobs” there is the Demerara Rowing Club, with a boat- house at La Penitence. The D’Urban Race Club, founded by Sir Benjamin D’Urban, the then Governor of the colony, on September 28, 1829, organises race meetings in April and September. The Georgetown Club is quite one of the best in this part of the world, and it is extremely hospitable to visitors who are properly introduced by members. The streets of Georgetown are wide and clean, and the houses—almost. without exception—are constructed of wood. On landing at the stelling or wharf, one enters Water Street, the leading commercial centre of the city, which runs paral- lel to the right bank of the Demerara River for about two miles. It is in this street that the principal stores and merchants’ offices are situated. Near the stelling stands the Stabroek Market, which in the early hours of the morning presents a scene of great activity, while at the other end the Reading Room...”
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“...are included tiger-cats, labba, acowries, tapirs (the ancestor of the horse), and water-hasses, this last creature being a kind of glorified guinea-pig, about the size of a sheep and having web feet! New Amsterdam, the capital of Berbice, is New reached from Georgetown by Sprostons’ steamer in Arnsterdam- 6| hrs., or by rail to Rosignol in 3^ hrs., and thence by ferry-boat. It is situated on the right bank of the Berbice River, near the mouth of a tributary of the Canje creek. The town is very clean, but it has by no means such a bustling appearance as Georgetown. Indeed, Anthony Trollope said that three people made a crowd in New Amsterdam, which resembles an old Dutch town rather than an English one, though the old Dutch capital of Berbice was Nassau, 100 miles up the river. Every one who visits the colony should endeavour ^to visit the “ Bush.” If time is not limited, a trip The to one of the creeks of the Demerara River will fully " Bush-” repay the trouble. Few places in the world are...”
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“...112 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES Coaches. Mail coaches run between Ewarton and Dry Harbour (42 miles, 6£ hours) on Monday, Wed- nesday, and Friday; returning Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; and between Montego Bay and Lucea (25 miles, 4 hours), fare 8s.; Williamsfield and Mandeville (5 miles, 1 hour), fare 2s. 6d.; Santa Cruz and Balaclava (16 miles, 3 hours 5 mins.), fare 6s.; Black River and Ipswich (18 miles, 3 hours 5 mins.), fare 6s.; and Savanna- la-Mar and Montpelier (22 miles, 4J hours), fare Livery 6s., daily. There are several livery stables in Stables. Kingston, including those of Harold Bolton, W. G. Clark, and A. Clough. The general charge for carriages for long distances is £1 per day. On extended tours, arrangements can be made for a charge to include the cost of feeding the driver (is. 6d. per day) and horses (a charge varying accord- ing to the market prices of fodder). Double buggies for shopping in Kingston and St. Andrew’s can be had for 6s. per hour, and saddle ponies...”
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“...are only given to indicate the time taken between each port, and inquiries as to the times of departure should be made at the offices of the company, 8 Port Royal Street:— Leave Kingston . Monday evening. Arrive Alligator Pond . 6 a.m. Tuesday. » Black River 10 A.M. „ 99 Sav.-la-Mar 3 p-m- .» 99 Lucea 6 a.m. Wednesday. 99 Montego Bay IO A.M. „ 99 Falmouth . 2 P.M. „ 99 Dry Harbour 6 P.M. „ 99 St. Ann’s Bay . 11 a.m. Thursday. 99 Port Maria 2 P.M* ,, 99 Port Antonio 7 P.M. „ 99 Morant Bay 6 a.m. Friday. 99 Port Morant Noon „ Leave Port Maria 8 a.m. Saturday. Arrive Ocho Rios Noon „ 99 St. Ann’s Bay . 2 P.M. ,, ‘99 Dry Harbour S P-M- » 99 Rio Bueno 9 a.m. Monday. 99 Falmouth . II A.M. „ H....”
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“...in “Tom Cringle’s Log,” and other objects of interest. Among so many, few possess greater attraction than the famous “Shark Papers,” of which an illustration is given on another page. The story of them, as narrated by Mr. Frank Cundall, the cultured Secretary of the Institute, is briefly as follows: The brig Nancy, of 125 tons, owned by Germans by birth but naturalised citizens of the United States, left Baltimore for Curasao on 3rd July 1799, commanded by Thomas Briggs, her cargo consisting of dry goods, provisions, and lumber. She put in at Oruba, and proceeded to Port au Prince, in Hayti, and having carried away her maintop mast she was making the best of her way to the Isle of Ash, or Isle la Vache, a small island off the south coast of Hayti, when, on 28th August, she was captured by H.M.S....”
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“...TRINIDAD *45 Basin. afternoon’s drive. The reservoirs, which are scrupulously clean and are surrounded by bright- coloured crotons and oleanders and ferns, are by no means unpicturesque. The Blue Basin The Blue at Diego Martin is 9 miles from Port of Spain; three hours by carriage there and back. The beginning of the drive is through the interesting East Indian village of Peru, and thence up the Diego Martin valley. At one part the valley opens out into a flat plain, which formerly used to be under sugar canes, but is now for the most part quite uncultivated. The plain has an evil reputation, having been the scene of no less than four blood-curdling murders, the last being when a priest was brutally murdered and was found tied to a tree. At the head of the valley conveyances stop, and visitors proceed afoot up a winding mountain path for about half a mile. The Blue Basin is a small lake, forty or fifty yards in diameter, into which a waterfall precipitates itself in a slanting direction...”
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“...one year and three years. Rubber has been planted to a considerable extent, and this product, when it reaches the “ bearing ” stage, should add materially to the welfare of the island. An impetus has been given to the raising of stock by the establishment of the Government Stock Farms. Climate. The climate of Tobago is delightful. The mean temperature is 80° Fahr., but owing to the extensive seaboard, the heat is nearly always tempered by a cool sea breeze. This is par- ticularly the case in the dry season, from Decem- ber to June. In the wet season, especially during the months of August and September, the heat is sometimes oppressive from the stillness of the moisture-laden atmosphere. The rainfall varies very much in different parts of the island. In the southern portion it does not exceed 60 inches in the year, and lands in that part occasionally suffer from drought, owing to its having been almost entirely denuded of forest in order to make room for the cultivation of the sugar cane....”
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“...Means of Convey- ance. Horses. Coastal Steamers. Sports. Tennis. Bathing. 158 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES French during their occupation, and they are more remarkable for their skilful tracery than for the condition of their surface, which leaves much to be desired. One can drive within a radius of 5 miles from Scarborough at all times, and, in the dry season, for 20 miles along the Windward Road. The continuation of this road goes right round the island, but from King’s Bay on to its junction with the Northside Road at King Peter’s Bay—a distance of 32 miles—it is a bridle track only. There is a road across the centre of the island, still in bad order in places, but which is being rapidly improved, and there are numerous branch roads in good condition. Though they are fairly well kept, they are not well adapted for carriages, and the principal means of loco- motion are therefore horses and “ Shanks’ mare.” Good riding horses can be hired for 2s. per hour, 6s. per day, or jQi, os. rod. per...”
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“...other common purposes, such as the maintenance of a lunatic asylum, and also for quarantine, &c. A common audit system was instituted in 1889. Grenada has an Executive Council and a Legislative Council consisting of six official members, besides the Governor, and seven unofficial members nomi- nated by the Crown. The unofficial members hold their seats for six years from the date of their appointment. St. George’s.—The Home Hotel in Young and Monckton Streets, within fifty yards of the wharf, is clean and comfortable. It is built in the Italian style, with rooms opening on to galleries overlooking a courtyard. The tariff of charges is very moderate—R.L.A. 2s. 6d., Pension 8s. 4d. per day. At the Grand Êtang there is a Govern- ment Rest House and a small Sanatorium con-...”
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“...This was formerly quite the most fertile sugar-pro- ducing district in St. Vincent. All cultivation on it was, however, destroyed by the volcanic eruption, and the freshwater “Carib” canal was filled up, with the result that agricultural operations have recently only been conducted on it on a small scale. The streams are numerous, though small, the principal being the Union or Argyle River on the windward side, and the Wariwarou at the south. On the eastern side of the island is the Rabaca or dry river, which except in flood time is of very small volume, having been choked by the volcanic eruption of 1812. Kingstown, population 4547, the capital of the island, stands at the head of Kingstown Bay, an indentation of about three-quarters of a mile on the south-west coast. Most of the Grenadines, a chain of islands lying between St. Vincent and Grenada, are depen- dencies of St. Vincent, the largest which fall under this category being Bequia, 9 miles from Kings- town, Union Island, and Cannouan...”
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“...and for other game, 10s. The New Club, near Government House, “is noted for its hospitality, and the principal London papers and magazines can be seen at the Public Library, which is situated in High Street, near the landing-place. The town of St. John’s, at the head of the harbour of the same name, used to be defended by Goat Hill Fort on the south, and on the north by Fort James, while Rat Island, which is con- nected with Antigua by a narrow isthmus, was also fortified. The streets are very clean and the houses are nearly all made of wood painted a dazzling white. The Anglican Cathedral stands on rising ground at the head of the town. It is a handsome stone fabric, with a fagade ter- minating at either end in octagonal domed towers, and replaces an inferior building wrecked by /...”
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“...Kitts Club in the Town Square is very hospitable to visitors, and there is a Free Public Library near the Court-house in which the latest English papers and magazines are to be found. Principal After the fire of 1867, Basseterre was rebuilt in a Sights greatly improved style. The houses are mostly of wood, but many are constructed of a greyish stone or of a rough-hewed stone covered with plaster, with the upper parts of wood. The streets, which are lighted at night by oil-lamps, are wide and clean. There is a serviceable telephone round the island. The prettiest feature of the town is undoubtedly Pall Mall Pall Mall Square, a cool garden in its centre, which Square. js laid, out with tropical trees of great beauty, and has a fountain. On one side of the square is the Ine Court- „ , . ^ House. Court-house, where the Legislature meets and Library Just'ce *s administered. Near by is a Free Library, in which there are several portraits and pictures of interest, including one of Mr. Joseph Cham-...”
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“...has three groups of mountains, the highest elevation being the Soufrière (3002 feet) in the southern part of the island. The hills rise in steady slopes from the sea, and are cultivated to a height of 1500 feet. The cultivated land is mainly on the western and south-eastern sides. A natural forest clothes the summits of the two main ranges, and as a consequence streams are plentiful; but the northern hills being almost denuded of trees, the land in that part of the island is for the most part dry and unprofitable. Plymouth, the chief town (population 1461), stands on the south-west coast, and has an open road-...”
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“...232 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES The principal exports in the year 1904—5 were as follows:— Lime-juice and limes . . . ^7803 Sugar (429 tons) .... 3007 Cotton 1380 Climate. The climate of Montserrat is comparatively cool and very healthy, there being no indigenous malaria in the island, owing, probably, to the fact that it is so well drained. Though the northern part is rather dry as the result of deforestation, the south has an abundance of water. The mean annual temperature is 78° Fahr., the rainfall from 40 to 80 inches, and the death rate only 16 per thousand. History. Montserrat was discovered by Columbus in 1493, on his second voyage, and named by him after a mountain near Barcelona in Spain. It was first colonised by the English under Sir Thomas Warner in 1632, but was captured from them by the French in 1664. In 1668 it was restored to England, in whose possession it remained until 1782, when it capitulated to the French. It was again ceded to England in 1784, and since that date it...”
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“... in Grande Terre, the population of which is 20,000, but Basse Terre (population 7762) is the seat of government. Sugar, which is cultivated mainly in Grande Terre, is still the principal crop of Guadeloupe; but cereals, cocoa, coffee, cotton, manioc, yams, and potatoes are also produced. The average temperature of Guadeloupe during the tourist months is 68° Fahr., and the climate is quite healthy. The rainy season extends from July to November, the cool season from December to March, and the dry season from April to June. The island has numerous warm bath resorts, notably Eau de Dolé, Sofaia, and Bainsjaunes....”
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“...be procured, is kept by Mr. Wm. Carriages. Nisbett, and bicycles can be obtained from Mr. Cycles. M. Bornn for a reasonable charge. Sports. There are two tennis clubs to which visitors are welcomed, and the boating and bathing to be enjoyed are above the average. Good sea fishing can be had in all the bays. The roads are ex- cellent for cycling. Principal The town of Charlotte Amalia is strikingly Sghts. beautjfui wben seen from the deck of the ship as one enters the harbour. The streets are clean,...”
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“...which surrounds them is removed by the process of sweating or fermentation. The beans are packed Curing, closely together in boxes and covered with plan- tain leaves, and left for four days or a week, being, however, occasionally “ turned over ” during that time. Fermentation takes place, and the beans are then spread out on large flat trays called “ barbecues ” or “ boucans.” On these trays they are “ danced,” that is to say, the negroes or coolies dance or trample on them in order to remove the dry pulp, and the beans are then dried in the sun....”
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“...294 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES The boucans have sliding roofs, which are closed over them when, as is often the case in the middle of the day, the sun is too powerful, or when it comes on to rain. When the cocoa is quite dry or “cured,” it is shipped in bags, each bag con- taining roughly i £ cwt. The Banana The only British West Indian colonies from ^ which bananas are now exported on a commercial scale are Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados. In Jamaica the industry has assumed enormous pro- portions, no less than 15,000,000 bunches being exported every year. The bulk of them go to the United States, and the development of the trade has been almost entirely due to American enterprise and capital. Many years ago Captain Baker, the commander of a schooner trading between Jamaica and America, was in the habit of taking back to his native town a few bunches of bananas, and he found that they stood the journey so well, and were so much appreciated by his friends, that he decided to extend a business...”