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“...WEST INDIAN SEASON 1909-10
These will be found to have undergone improve- Means of
ment in several respects. In the larger colonies ance.Cy”
lilUtur-cars are increasingly used, and motor services .
nave been established between New Amsterdam and ƒ
the Corentyne in British Guiana and between
Bridgetown and Speightstown in Barbados. A
steamer now runs on Tuesdays and Saturdays, in
connection with the trains at San Fernando, Trinidad,
to Cedros and Icacos, calling at La Brea and Brighton
for the Pitch Lake, and returning the same day; and
on Sundays and Thursdays returning on the follow-
ing day. Trains run between Port of Spain and
Tacarigua at short intervals throughout the day, and
thrice a day to the termini at San Fernando, Princes-
town, Tabaquite and Sangre Grande. At the last-
named place a swift motor bus service connects with
each train, conveying passengers to and from the
beautiful stretch of coco-nut-lined and fóam-swept
beach of Manzanilla eight Piiles away.
Several of the coastal...”
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“...north-
east, the island is of coral formation, and it is
almost encircled by coral reefs, which in some
parts, as, for example, off St. Philip, extend nearly
three miles to seaward, and prove very dangerous ___
to navigation. The first view of Barbados gene-
rally causes tourists who have pictures in their
minds of the beauties of tropical scenery some
little disappointment. They see a long, greyish
shore, only relieved here and there by tall palm
trees, waving casuarinas, and an occasional aër-
motor. The island is very flat, but it rises in
terraces to a ridge in the parish of St. Andrew
culminating in Mount Hillaby, the highest point’
H05 feet high. The Scotland District, which is
enclosed in a semicircular sweep of the ridge in
57...”
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“...Means of
Conveyance.
Motor Cars.
Electric
Trams.
Railway.
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indications that the rural districts are preparing to
make better provision than heretofore for the re-
ception of visitors. On private inquiry, a few
planters, penkeepers, and others may be found
who are willing to take paying guests on suitable
introduction; and for those who can afford the
time this is perhaps the best way of learning to
know the country and the people under homelike
conditions. Stopping at hotels, where there are
any, and lodging-houses, the expense of board
and lodging may be assumed roughly to be from
I2S. to j£i, 5s. a day, if travelling quickly. In
Jamaica, as elsewhere, longer sojourns mean a
reduced daily expenditure.
The roads in Jamaica are excellent and quite
suitable for motor cars, the gradients on the hills
not being too steep and the fords usually passable.
Kingston and its suburbs have a smart service of
electric trams of the West India Electric Company,
Limited, 25 miles...”
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dissements, and comprises thirty-four communes
with elective municipalities.
Hotels. The Amélie and Anaida hotels at Basse Terre,
and the Germain hotel at Pointe-A-Pitre are
recommended. The charges are moderate —
Pension io to 12 francs per day.
Means of Horses and carriages are readily obtainable.
Convey- gasse Terre is connected with the other parts of
the island by a steamboat service and motor cars.
The fare from Pointe-k-Pitre to Basse Terre by
steamer is 11 francs.
MARTINIQUE
The home of the Empress Josephine
General The island of Martinique is historically in-
AflWftfit
teresting as being the birthplace and early home
. of the Empress Josephine, and also the residence
I for some years of Fran§oise d’Aubigné, who
I married Scarron, and was afterwards celebrated
as Madame de Maintenon. The father of the
Empress, M. de la Pagerie, was practically ruined
by a terrible hurricane in 1767, in which 1600
persons perished. The island, of which the
population...”
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“...182, 245,252,
253, 255-260
Montague, Duke of, 176, 192
Montego Bay, 109, no, in, 113,
114
Montgomery, Earl of, 134, 155
Montpelier, 109, in, 128
Montpelier, ruins of, 228
Montserrat, 2, 5, 203, 230-233,
236, 298
Montserrat District, Trinidad, 146
Moore, Lieut.-Governor Henry,
123
Moore, Sir John, 193
Morant Bay, 113
Morant Cays, 100
Moravians, 47
Morawhanna, 87
Morne des Sauteurs, 172
Morne Diablotin, 234
Morne Fédon, 171
Morne Fortunée, 193, 194, 197,
198
Morne Nicholls, 244
Moskito Bay, 267
Motor cars, no
Mount Canaries, 188
Mount Conil, 253
Mount Everard, 84
Mount Misery, 216, 224
Mount Sage, 246
Mount St. Andrew, 173, 179, 187
Mount St. Catherine, 161
Museum, the, Georgetown, 90
Musgrave, Mrs., 210
Napoleon Bonaparte, 285
Narrows, the, 217
Nassau, 93, 103
Nelson, Lord, statue of, 67...”
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