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“...3 /Ki THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES BRITISH GUIANA BRITISH HONDURAS BERMUDA THE SPANISH MAIN SURINAM AND THE PANAMA CANAL SIR ALGERNON ASPINALL, C.M.G., C.B.E. AUTHOR OF “ West Indian Tales of Old," " A Wayfarer in the West Indies," " The Handbook of the British West Indies British Guiana and British Honduras” BY I KONINOX INSTITUUT Y00* ! TAAL-, LAND- £N VOl,\£NKUcJB£ van galenstraat 14 L ' 'i-GRAVCNHAGE LONDON: SIFTON, PRA'ED & CO., LTD 1931...”
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“...3 9 /Vjz: THE POCKET GÜIDE TO THE WEST INDIES BRITISH GUIANA BRITISH HONDURAS BERMUDA THE SPANISH MAIN SURINAM AND THE PANAMA CANAL BY SIR ALGERNON ASPINALL, C.M.G., C.B.E. AUTHOR OF “ West Indian Tales of Old," " A Wayfarer in the West Indies,” " The Handbook of the British West Indies British Guiana and British Honduras” [j KONINKLIJK INSTITUUT VOOR L ! TAAL-, LAND- EN VOLKENKUNDE : i i | van Galenstraat 14 | t 't-GRAVÊNHAGE --------r LONDON: SIFTON, PRAED & CO., LTD. I931...”
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“...CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. General Information . ... i II. More General Information . . 24 III. Bermuda ...... 40 IV. The Bahamas . . . . .59 V. Barbados ...... 71 VI. Trinidad and Tobago . . .110 VII. The Windward Islands . . . 151 VIII. The Leeward Islands . . . 197 IX. Jamaica and its Dependencies . . 252 X. The French West Indies . . . ,299 XI. The Virgin Islands of the United States ...... 314 XII. Porto Rico ..... 325 XIII. The Dutch West Indies . . . 333 XIV. Cuba ....... 338 XV. Haiti and Santo Domingo . . . 360 XVI. British Guiana and British Honduras 368 XVII. The Spanish Main and Surinam . . 396 XVIII. The Panama Canal .... 416 XIX. Some West Indian Industries . . 433 XX. Concluding Remarks .... 445 APPENDIX I. Steamship Communications . . 448 II. Air Transport Services . . . 464 III. Dollars and Sterling Tables . . 466 Index . ... . . . 467 ix...”
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“...LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS Maps The West Indies . . . . after PAGE xiv Bermuda . . . . • , .* 42 New Providence, the Bahamas * • it 60 "A TOPOGRAPHICALL DESCRIPTION AND AD- MEASUREMENT OF THE YLAND OF BARBADOS ” „ 72 Reproduced from Ligon’s Map, dated 1657 Barbados ....... 76 Trinidad and Tobago . • • , 116 Grenada, St. Vincent and the dines . Grena- 154 St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Kitts, Nevis, Dominica and Montserrat . 168 Jamaica .... 254 Guadeloupe, Martinique, Marie Galante AND THE SAINTES . . . . 300 The Virgin Islands 320 Cuba and Porto Rico . 340 Haiti and Santo Domingo 362 British Guiana 370 Dutch Guiana or Surinam 412 The Panama Canal . . facing 422 xi...”
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“...8 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES of the slaves as appraised by the Commissioners by £26,460,000. The capital invested in land, cultivation, buildings, and machinery upon the estates on which slaves were located could not have been less than £80,000,000. Antigua and Bermuda dispensed with the apprenticeship system altogether, and it was in no case continued after 1838. Slavery was abolished in the French colonies in 1848, in the Dutch West Indies in 1863, in Porto Rico in 1873, and in St. Thomas in 1876. The slaves were gradually emancipated in Cuba by an Act of the Spanish Senate of December 24th, 1879, which took effect on February 18th, 1880, and the total abolition of slavery in that island was brought about by a decree dated October 6th, 1886. After the total abolition of slavery in the British colonies, the shortage of labour became acute, and efforts were made to supply the deficiency with free labourers from Havana, St. Helena, Rio, and Sierra Leone, but they were not satisfactory...”
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“...Islands." By Vere Langford Oliver, F.S.A. Dorchester : The Friary Press, 1927. “ A Wayfarer in the West Indies." By Algernon AspinaU, C.M.G., C.B.E. London : Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1928. (New edition 1930.) " The Handbook of the British West Indies, British Guiana and British Honduras.” By Algernon AspinaU, C.M.G., C.B.E. London : The West India Committee, 1929. " The Colonial Office List.” London : Waterlow and Son, Ltd. (Annual.) Bermuda “ The Historye of the Bermudaes or Summer Islands.” 1 Hakluyt Series, 1882. ” All About Bermuda.” By John J. Bushel!. Bermuda: The Colonist Building, ign. Bahamas “ Sketches of Summerland.” By G. J. H. Northcroft, 1912. “ The Land of the Pink Pearl." By L. D. Powles, 1888. " The Bahamas Handbook.” By Mary Moseley, M.B.E. Nassau : The Nassau Guardian, 1926. " A Winter in Paradise.” By Alan Parsons. London: A. M. Philpot, Ltd., 1926. Barbados " History of Barbados.” 1 By Sir Robert H. Schomburgk. London, 1848. “ An Account of a West Indian Sanatorium.” 1 By...”
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“...MORE GENERAL INFORMATION INTERCOLONIAL ROUTE 35 Trinidad 96 Grenada ucia 173 77 St. Vincent 233 137 60 | St. L 316 220 143 1 83 Dominica 425 329 252 j 191 109 Montserrat 462 366 289 | 229 146 37 | Antigua 5ti 415 338 I 278 195 86 | 49 | Nevis 522 426 349 | 289 206 97 1 60 | 11 | St. Kitts AMERICA—BAHAMAS AND BERMUDA New York Miami | 7°° I Bermuda j 187 | Bahamas NEW YORK—WEST INDIES New York M35 St. Thomas 1470 35 | St. Croix 1620 150 | 119 | St. Kitts New York I 967 I Bahamas I1528I 561 Cuba I2246I1279 718I Porto Rico For distances beyond St. Kitts see Intercolonial Route. CANADA—WEST INDIES St. John, N.B. Halifax, N.S. 283 Halifax, N.S. 1 1351 Bahamas 1043 760 Bermuda 1 2247 896 | Jamaica 1968 | 1685 925 I St. Kitts | 2912 1561 |665|B.Honduras For distances beyond St. Kitts see Intercolonial Route. DISTANCES OF VISIBILITY Below is a table showing the distances visible at sea from various elevations. Elevation Distance Visible 5 feet ... ... 2| miles 20 ,, v; ... ••• 5 35 „ •••...”
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“...Chapter III BERMUDA “ The still vex’d Bermoothes " " The Tempest,” Shakespeare. The Bermudas or Somers’ Islands, better known as Bermuda, are not in the West Indies; but as many steamers visit them on their way to and from the Caribbean Sea their inclusion in the present volume should require no justification. Bermuda consists of a group of about three hundred small islands lying in the shape of a sickle in the Western Atlantic in latitude 320 155' N., and longitude 64° 51' W., about 580 miles to the east of Cape Hatteras, and 667 miles from New York. They are all of coral formation, and are described in the report on the voyage óf H.M.S. Challenger1 as a coral atoll “ situated on the summit of a large cone with a wide base, rising from the sub- merged plateau of the Atlantic.” Their total estimated area is 19 square miles, or less than one-eighth of that of the county of Rutland. The principal island, generally known as the Main Island, near the centre of which, at the head of a deep inlet...”
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“...BERMUDA 4i up to the Naval Dockyard, Boaz and Watford, devoted to military depóts and the garrison, and Somerset, Smith’s, St. David’s, Cooper’s Nonsuch, Rivers, Ports, and Godets. The entire chain from St. George’s to Ireland Island is connected by means of bridges and causeways, for a distance of twenty-two miles. Bermuda is almost surrounded by dangerous reefs, the approach to the capital being by a long channel, the entrance to which is called the “ Narrows,” extending from St. George’s Island to Grassy Bay, a sheltered anchorage off Ireland Island. The northern coasts of the islands are much indented ; but approach to them is dangerous owing to the presence of many sunken rocks. The islands have no rivers, and though several wells exist the water from them is brackish, and the inhabitants are consequently dependent upon the rainfall for drinking water. The whole chain is comparatively flat, the highest elevation being 245 feet only. The islands are divided into nine parishes—namely...”
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“...42 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES Bermuda might indeed be described as the Market Garden of North America. Within the last thirty or forty years a lily bulb industry has also been developed with success, thanks to the efforts of General Russell Hastings, and large quantities of the variety known as Liliutn longiflorum Harrisii are grown. Arrow- root, for which Bermuda was once famous, is no longer produced on a commercial scale. Fish .of great variety abound in the waters surrounding the islands, and form the basis of a profitable local industry. Green and hawksbill turtle are also caught, and shipped overseas. Bermuda is steadily growing in importance as a tourist resort, and about sixty-five per cent, of the Colony’s revenue is derived from the tourist " industry.” Most of the visitors are from the United States and Canada, and there is a summer as well as a winter season. CLIMATE. Bermuda is justly famed for its climate, which, though less equable than that of the islands within the...”
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“...BERMUDA 43 favourably spoken of. In 1612, fifty settlers were despatched to the islands by the Virginia Company, whose charter was ex- tended to include the " Somers Islands ” as they were called ; and Richard Moore, ship’s carpenter, was made first Governor. Three years later, the islands were sold to “ the Governor and Company of the City of London for the Plantation of the Somers Islands," and they remained in the possession of that concern until 1684, when it was dissolved in consequence of the complaints of the settlers. At the beginning of the Commonwealth the Bermudians remained Royalists, and, in company with Barbados, Antigua, and Virginia, Bermuda was consequently penalised by the Act of the Long Parliament which prohibited trade with those colonies ; but in February, 1652, the Governor and Council took the oath of allegiance and the ban was removed. In 1679 the settlers having appealed to the Crown for the redress of grievances against the Company, the charter of the latter was...”
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“...8d.) per day. In summer, the Bermudiana, Hamilton, and Princess are closed, but the other hotels remain open and accept guests at slightly reduced rates. Bermuda’s tourist business being mainly with America, hotel rates are quoted in dollars. There are also throughout the colony numerous boarding houses, a list of which is given in folders published by the Ber- muda Trade Development Board. Furnished cottages and bungalows may be rented at from $300 to $3,000 for the season. COMMUNICATIONS. Bermuda can be reached occasionally from England direct in about ten days, from England via La Rochelle in sixteen days, from New York in less than forty- eight hours, and from Canada in four days (see Appendix I), and also by air (see Appendix II). The islands have admirable roads covering 109 miles, fifteen of which are under military control. The use of motor-cars is prohibited, a circumstance which adds greatly to the comfort of visitors. There are several Every stables where carriages can be obtained...”
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“...BERMUDA 45 to visitors. Green fees range from 5s. ($1.20) per day upwards. The Bermuda Open Amateur Lawn tennis Championship held during the first week in March attracts many stars of the American tennis firmament. Other sports worthy of particular mention are Horse racing, Sailing, Bathing, Fishing, Biding, Cycling, Cricket, and Clay-pigeon shooting. Foremost among the many clubs devoted to sport besides those mentioned above are the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, founded by Mr. Samuel Triscot in 1841, the Hamilton Dinghy Club, the St. George’s Yacht Club, the Bermuda Boat and Canóe Club, the Bermuda Athletic Association, the Bermuda and Garrison Hunt Club, and the Bermuda Tennis Club, as well as many others throughout the colony devoted to the encouragement of Cricket, Football, and other forms of sport. SIGHTS. The first land which visitors to Bermuda usually sight is the eastern end of St. George’s and St. David’s Head on the island of the same name. Some nine miles from the shore is the...”
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“...BERMUDA 47 Hamilton, which owes its name to Henry Hamilton, Governor when it was incorporated in 1790, succeeded St. George’s as the seat of Government in 1815. It is a picturesque town of white houses laid out on a rect- angular plan on gently rising ground. The principal shops or stores and merchants’ warehouses and the Cable Office are in Front Street, which runs parallel with the wharves, and in Queen Street, leading to the Hamil- ton Hotel. Turning to the right along Front Street on landing at the wharf one comes to a square, green with many trees, among which is a cedar planted by Prince Alfred, afterwards Duke of Edinburgh, the uncle of King George V, when he visited Bermuda in 1862. A monument in the square perpetuates the memory of William Reid, Governor from 1839 to 1846, who was the first to call attention to the agricultural possibilities of the Bermudas. It is inscribed : Erected A.D. MDCCCLXI By authority of the legislature in grateful REMEMBRANCE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES AND...”
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“... R.N., the then Governor of Bermuda, in August, 1852, but the hotel was not opened until 1863. Since that year it has received many additions, and it may now be considered one of the best hotels in this part of the world. Opposite the hotel is the Mechanics’ Hall, built in 1850 to house the Bermuda Mechanics’ Beneficial Association. On the left-hand side of Queen Street are the grounds of Par la Ville, in which there is a famous rubber tree. In the former residence is the Museum of the Bermuda Natural History Society (open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sundays excepted). Here also is the Public Library. The north end of Burnaby Street is called Cedar Avenue, a delightfully shady walk skirting one side of Victoria Park, an ornamental garden containing many beautiful flowering shrubs and trees, a somewhat con- ventional bandstand erected to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, which was formally opened in 1890, and a War Memorial to the memory of members of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps who fell...”
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“...BERMUDA 49 Mount Langton the Governor’s residence (about i mile from the wharf), is reached by way of Burnaby Street and Cedar Avenue. Designed by Messrs. Hay and Henderson, of Edinburgh, it was begun in 1886 and com- pleted in 1892. The property received its name from an estate in Berwickshire owned by Sir James Cockbum, Governor of Bermuda from 1814 to 1819. Here the representative of the Sovereign dispenses hospitality, and many enjoyable “ At Homes ” are held in the charming grounds which were purchased by the Govern- ment in 1814. Clarence Hill (4 miles from the wharf), the residence of" the senior officer on the America and West Indies station, of which Bermuda is the headquarters, is no less favourably situated. It stands about ij miles to the west of Mount Langton. The property was pur- chased by the colony in 1816 for £2,000 and presented to the Crown. The grounds, though divided by the Spanish Point road, are connected by a tunnel cut in the limestone rock. A slope leads to Clarence...”
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“...50 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES East Point is a conspicuous object. In a sheltered position off the island lies a huge Floating Dock with a length over all of 545 ft., breadth 126 ft. 2 ins., and an extreme lifting power of 17,500 tons. This mammoth dock was built at Wallsend-on-Tyne and was towed to Bermuda by powerful tugs in the early summer of 1902, the voyage taking over fourteen weeks. The enclosed basin in which vessels can lie in perfect security is called the Camber. Ireland Island was purchased by the Imperial Govern- ment as a site for a naval station in 1809, an<3 preliminary operations were begun in the following year by slave labour. Convict labour was substituted for that of slaves in 1824, and the convicts were stationed on Boaz Island where the military barracks now stand. The convicts were withdrawn in 1863, and the graves of those of them who died during their sojourn in the islands alone remain to remind one of them. In the cemetery there are also the graves of many...”
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“...BERMUDA 5i that vessel and the American frigate Chesapeake off Boston on June 1st, 1813. It hangs in a niche in the wall near by. After a desperate encounter lasting eleven minutes, during which Captain Philip Vere Brooke of the Shannon was disabled, and Captain Lawrence of the Chesapeake was fatally wounded, the American vessel after a gallant fight was compelled to strike her colours, which now hang in the Royal United Service Museum in Whitehall, London. The bell, which bears the date 1740, was cracked by a bullet. Below the niche is a tablet inscribed : Bell said to have belonged to H.M.S. Shannon AND DAMAGED DURING HER ENGAGEMENT with the U.S. Frigate Chesapeake ist June, 1813. This historic bell was exhibited in the Bermuda Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 and 1925. The road for carriages or cyclists to Ireland Island is clearly shown on the map which faces page 42. Pedes- trians can take a short cut by crossing by ferry from Hamilton to Paget. The several...”
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“...BERMUDA 53 it is connected by a small causeway, is Gallow’s Island. A post at its highest point identifies the spot where a negro slave was hanged on a gibbet in 1754 for murdering his master. Flatt’s was once a shipping port of some size. Just across Flatt’s Bridge, on the Harrington Sound side of the road, is the well-stocked Aquarium, built in the old Colonial style of native stone. The Middle Road to Flatt’s Village begins at the east end of Hamilton and joins the North Shore Road at Zuill’s Park, a distance of half a mile from the village passing Prospect Hill, the military camp. This road can be taken on excursion to Spanish Rock (3 miles, see pages 42 and 58) and Knapton Hill (4 miles). Harrington Sound is a large inlet of the sea which, but for a narrow mouth bridged at Flatt’s, would be an inland lake. It is always a source of great attraction to visitors, and especially to those of them who are interested in Geology, for in its neighbourhood there are many remarkable limestone...”
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“...well worth climbing, for the sake of the superb views that it affords of the Sound on one side and Castle Harbour on the other. Near by is Shark’s Hole, another interesting cave .over .which the road passes, and proceeding farther one comes to the famous Walsingham Caves, which well repay a visit. It was at Walsingham that Ireland’s poet, Tom Moore, resided for a few months when he was Registrar of the Vice- Admiralty Court. A facsimile of his house was erected at Wembley to accommodate the Bermuda exhibits at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 and 1925. Tom Moore did not remain long in the islands, but delegated his duties to another man. The poet’s calabash tree is also pointed out to visitors. ■ Near the house are the Leamington Caves, and a little farther on the Crystal Caves, perhaps the finest in the island. In the same neighbourhood there are also the scarcely less famous Fern Caves, the Blue Hole, and Castle Grotto, all of which should be inspected. The South Road eventually...”