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“...class) and stations, with their distance from Bridgetown :— Stations. Miles from Fares. Bridgetown. 1st Class. 3rd Class. Bridgetown . s. d. s. d. Kingston Woods Halt. ... ... Rouen Valley Halt 0 3 0 1$ Bulkeley 0 6 0 3 Windsor 0 9 0 4 Carrington . 81 1 0 0 6 Sunbury 9Ï 1 3 0 7 Bushy Park . II 1 6 0 8 Three Houses I2f i 9 0 8 College Siding Halt Bath .... 15Ï 2 0 0 10 Martin's Bay Halt Bathsheba . 19I 2 6 1 0 Joe's River Halt . St. Andrew’s 24 2 6 1 0 At the “ Halts,” trains stop to set down passengers on notice being given to the guard, and passengers may also be taken up £...”
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“...82 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES to the Orinoco. The Spanish, however, never settled in the country on account of the hostility of the cannibals, but other Europeans managed to secure the warmest friendship of the savages. In 1595 Sir Walter Raleigh visited Guiana in search of the mythical City of Gold, the El Dorado which had existed in the imagination of the Spanish for nearly a century. The belief in the existence of this city was based on the tales of a Spanish soldier, who was set adrift by his companions when on an exploring expedition up the Orinoco. On finding his way back some months after, he told how he had been taken by the Indians to a great inland lake with golden sands, on which was a vast city roofed with gold. After exploring the Orinoco, he returned to England and published the “ Discoverie of Guiana.” After Raleigh’s visit the country was made known to Europeans, and English, French, and Dutch traders were often seen on the coast. The Spaniards tried to drive them away, and...”
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“...town. Fares from Georgetown. 1st Single. 1st Return. 2nd Single. Miles. Cents. Cents. Cents. Vreed-en-Hoop . ... Windsor Forest* Den Amstel* 32 42 16 Hague 3* 42 16 Leonora 4 42 56 20 Uitvlugt* . Boeraserie . 12 56 74 28 TusgJjgn 13J 60 80 Greenwich Park. is 72 96 36 * Trains stop at these stations by signal, or on informing the conductor at the preceding station. The fare from the preceding station is charged. On the Demerara and Berbice Railway passengers may be taken up or set down at any of the customary side lines, namely, Success, La Bonne Intention, Mon Repos, Lusignan, and Hope, on payment of an extra fare of 48 cents for each stop outside the station. Ferries. Ferry-boats cross the Demerara River between Georgetown and Vreed-en-Hoop at frequent in- tervals—Fares: 1st class, 12 cents; 2nd class, 8 cents ; and also the Berbice River between New Amsterdam, Rosignol and Blairmont—Fares : 1st class, 16 cents; 2nd class, 8 cents. There is a short railway between Wismar...”
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“...was with difficulty they could be taken out,” led to the condemnation of the brig and her cargo on the 25 th of Novem- ber 1799. It may be mentioned here that, about three years before, the Nancy had been captured by a French privateer, and carried into Guade- loupe, and there condemned as American property. The old Court-house of Kingston, in which the case was tried (now used for domestic purposes) is still standing at the south-west corner of Hanover and Harbour Streets. The shark s jaws were set up on shore, with the inscription, “ Lieut. Fitton recommends these jaws for a collar for neutrals to swear through.” The actual papers found in the shark lay until 1890 (with the affidavit of Lieut. Fitton) in the archives of the Court of Vice-Adnjiralty, where are many other documents of great interest connected with...”
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“...TRINIDAD 135 British squadron, who had been attacking some French privateers in the Gulf of Paria, and the colonists. The Commodore landed a force, and, though he withdrew before a conflict ensued, this incident formed one of the grounds on which Spain declared war with Great Britain a few months afterwards, and on 12th February 1797 a large British expedition set out from Martinique to reduce the island. On 18th February, without a fight, Chacon surrendered Trinidad to Sir Ralph Abercromby, an event which has been so charm- ingly described by Charles Kingsley, and his aide-de-camp, Picton, was appointed Governor. The concession was confirmed by the Peace of Amiens in 1802. Trinidad, with which the neighbouring island, Constitu- Tobago, is now incorporated, is a Crown Colony. The government is administered by a Governor, with an Executive Council of six members. There is also a Legislative Council, consisting of ten officials, and of such other unofficial members as the Governor may appoint...”
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“...TOBAGO *53 These valleys are very fertile, each having its own stream. The central portion is undulating, with little valleys and conical hills, and the south end is quite flat. About 53,000 acres are owned privately; 6360 acres in the north are set apart as a rain and forest reserve, and the remaining 13,640 acres are Crown lands available for sale. The chief areas of cultivation are on the south side, on which the slopes of the hills are less steep than in the north. Scarborough (popula- tion 2500), the capital of Tobago, is situated at the south of the island, about 8 miles from the south-west point. The only other town is Plymouth, really only a village (population 1200), on the north side, 5 miles from Scarborough. Around the coast there are many excellent bays, most of which are well sheltered and afford safe anchorage with deep soundings. Indeed, Man- o’-War Bay, a very spacious harbour, is said to be capable of affording shelter to the whole of the British fleet! What is most wanted...”
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“...Italian Sauteurs. coast, are densely covered with verdure. Sauteurs, at the north of the island, is reached by coastal steamer (see above) in 3 or 4 hours. It is of interest as being the scene of the massacre of Carib Indians, of whom a number, pursued by the French under Le Compte, rushed up a narrow and difficult path known to them alone, and threw themselves over the edge of a cliff (Le Morne des Sauteurs, or The Leapers’ Hill) overlooking the bay, in 1650. The French, who only lost one man, then set fire to the cottages and rooted up the provisions of the Caribs, and, having de- stroyed or taken away everything belonging to them, returned, as Du Tertre naively describes Cocoa and it, “ bien joyeux.” A visit to a cocoa and a Estates, spice estate should on no account be omitted. If the visitor is not furnished with letters of in- troduction from England—which it is always desirable to have—he should seek the advice of the proprietor of the Home Hotel, who will always be found very willing to...”
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“...satisfy local requirements. When the price of sugar fell to a point which made it no longer a remunerative crop, the planters had the foresight to turn their attention to other industries, with the result that lime products— 1 under which name are included green or fresh ' limes, pickled limes, raw and concentrated lime juice, and lime oils—cocoa, and oranges are now the principal articles exported. As a lime-pro- ducing island Dominica is now far ahead of Montserrat, which received rather a severe set- back from a hurricane in 1899, and as a cocoa- producing island more will be heard of Dominica in the near future when the numerous plantations established by enterprising young settlers from England come into bearing. The island has a 1 large variety of timber, the virgin forests con- taining lofty trees of fine woods for cabinet and building purposes, and sulphur must also be included among its products. Now that arrange- ments have been completed for insurance against hurricanes, Dominica offers...”
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“... with the northern islands. About seven o’clock the Scrutton steamer Roddam steamed up, but owing to some quarantine dif- ficulties she was ordered to the place set apart for the ships in quarantine, and one anchor had been let go about eight o’clock. By being thus moored slightly out of the full force of the eruption, the Roddam probably escaped the fate of the other vessels. In a moment, without warning, came the awful catastrophe. Those who survived stated that the whole side of the mountain seemed to gape open, and from the fissure belched a lurid whirlwind of fire, wreathing itself into vast masses of flame as it descended with terrible speed upon the doomed town. Before the true extent of their peril could be grasped, the fiery mass swept like a « river over the town, and, pushing the very waters of the sea before it, set the ships ablaze. In a few seconds, when the flames of the volcano had spent I themselves, molten masses of lava and ashes, accompanied by a dense sulphurous vapour...”
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“...Constitu- tion. 278 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES Santiago after the patron saint of Spain, and still later Ave Maria, before it reverted to its original native name, Cuba. In 1511 Diego fitted out an expedition, which set out for Cuba and founded Santiago. The town of San Cristobal de la Havana was established in 1515, at the spot where Batabano now stands, but four years later the name was transferred to the present capital. Havana was attacked and reduced by French privateers in 1538, and again in 1554 it was destroyed by the French. In 1580 a period of long prosperity was opened for Cuba, when the cultivation of tobacco and sugar was begun and slavery introduced. Havana was captured by an English fleet and army under Albemarle in 1762, but it was restored to Spain by the Treaty of Paris in the following year. The most brilliant period of the island’s existence began in 1790, under the governorship of Las Casas. In 1848, President Polk suggested the transfer of the island to the United States...”