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“...The taste in regard to beverages in the West Indies follows very closely that prevailing at home; but a new-comer should guard against the tendency to increase the quantity consumed, which must in- evitably result from a rising thermometer. Light wines or whisky and soda in moderation are perhaps the safest “ drinks ” in the tropics; while for abstainers, lemonade, ginger ale, kola, and similar concoctions can always be obtained, and lime squashes will be found infinitely preferable ■ to the familiar lemon squash. Among other bever- ages peculiar to the West Indies are pimento dram and falernum, and the old-time sangaree...”
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“...Golf clubs should be taken by those tourists who contemplate a stay of any duration in such islands as Barbados, Trinidad, or Jamaica, and the same remark applies equally to tennis racquets and cricket bats. For deep- sea fishing, special tackle may be taken, and also a gun for sport in those islands where it can be enjoyed. The delights of a sea voyage have often been described, and no visitor to the Caribbean who commits his impressions to paper on his return fails to expatiate regarding the familiar scenes and amusements on shipboard, such as the daily “ sweep ” on the run of the ship, the parade of the crew on Sunday, the fiddles on the tables in rough weather, leading inevitably to reference to the con- certs, the fancy balls, and so on, which make the eleven days between Southampton and Barbados pass so pleasantly for the traveller who takes Kings- ley’s advice, and towards his fellow-passengers is “ To their faults a little blind, And to their virtues very kind.” The itinerary of the...”
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“...up to a high pitch of tension by this gruesome episode. Most of the numerous gullies are of great in- Gullies, terest and beauty, but they can only be explored on foot. Permission can usually be obtained to visit one of the numerous sugar estates, which, Sugar if not so advanced as regards their methods ofEstates- manufacture as many in neighbouring colonies, at any rate produce a quality of sugar which for flavour and wholesomeness cannot be excelled. This is the familiar Barbados Muscovado or moist sugar, which was so familiar in our childhood’s day,...”
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“...be considered rare at home grow in pro- fusion, and a variety of grasses and lianes hang from the giant limbs of this monster, which also affords sanctuary to all sorts of creeping and crawling things, from the manicou, a kind of opossum, to the hairy tarantula spider. A clump of bamboos over 80 feet high cannot fail to excite remark, and screw-pines (Pandanus), groo- groo palms (Acrocomia selerocarpa), sand-box trees (Hura crepitans), cannon-ball trees and banyans, to say nothing of the more familiar hibiscus, poinsettias, dracaenas, and crotons of every colour will astonish those who are new to the tropics. The gardens contain a well-stocked library and a fine herbarium, to which visitors interested in botany are welcomed if they are furnished with...”
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“...WEST INDIAN INDUSTRIES 287 4800 tons; while Cuba produces 1,400,000 tons, and Puerto Rico 200,000 tons per annum. There are two principal forms of sugar manu- Sugar facture in the West Indies—the old-fashionedManufacture- muscovado process, which is still in vogue on the smaller estates, and the result of which is the old-fashioned brown sugars of childhood’s days, and the vacuum-pan process, which turns out the familiar yellow “ Demerara crystals,” or else grey sugar for refining purposes. As every tourist will doubtless visit one or more sugar factories during his stay in the West Indies, the following brief outline of these two methods of manufacture may be of interest. To begin with, Cultivation, the sugar canes are grown from cuttings of the mature canes. These take from twelve to eighteen months to reach maturity. They are then cut down by field labourers with cutlasses, trimmed, and conveyed to the mill, which consists, in the case of the small muscovado factories, of three Muscovado...”
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“...demand for Jamaica bananas in the mother country has developed with surprising rapidity, and a company known as Messrs. Elders and Fyffes now have no less than thirteen vessels bringing fruit to England from Jamaica and Costa Rica as fast as it can be carried. The Jamaica banana, which is the variety known Varieties of as the Gros Michel., is cut when the fruit is three- Bananas- quarters full, and consequently tourists must not expect to see the fruit growing on the trees in Jamaica of the familiar yellow colour, but quite green. In the United States the Jamaica banana is preferred to the smaller dwarf banana, com- monly known as the Canary banana (Musa Cavendishii), which is grown in Barbados, though the latter is at present more popular in England, | the reason probably being that the British public have become accustomed to the fruit from the j Canary Islands, which had been imported for I many years before the Jamaica variety was intro- duced. The two kinds of bananas were existing...”