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“...NEVIS
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of the Assembly and Deputy Treasurer of this island. Not many
years before his death he became proprietor of the hot springs
over which, out of good will towards his fellow creatures, he
erected convenient baths, and at a short di^amce a large and
expensive stone edifice for the accommodation of invalids. This
stone was put up by his widow.
The old Bath Honse Hotel is a conspicuous building a
little more than quarter mile to the south-west of
Charlestown. It serves as a link with the past when
Nevis was a fashionable health resort. Here are situ-
ated the famous hot springs, which have a temperature
of 1080 Fahr., and prove of undoubted efficacy in the
treatment of gout, lumbago, sciatica, and kindred ills
to which the flesh is heir.
The actual date of the construction of the Bath House
is not known, but on a stone the figure 17— is still
clearly decipherable. The house is stated to have cost
£40,000, and there is no reason to doubt this, for it is
very solidly built of stone—so...”
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“...Chest, immortalised by R. L. Stevenson in " Treasure
Island,” who, though he never visited it, wrote :
" Fifteen men on The Dead Man’s Chest—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum I "
This rock, when seen from a distance, appears a flat surface,
almost level with the surface of the water; but on a nearer
approach, it assumes a regular shape, which has been compared
by one of the Spanish Fathers who first visited the*country, to
a table with a coffin lying upon it; whence it has its name, in
Spanish el Casa di Muerti, which means nothing more than a
coffin, but, literally translated, is the Dead-man’s chest, its
present English name.—Waller’s " Voyage in the West Indies,
1820.’’
Describing the amenities of these islands in The West
India Committee Circular in 1921, Mr. John Levo wrote :
One can imagine no better holiday for a fisherman than cruising
in a motor-boat among the islands, with a tent for shore of
nights, with food and conversation enriched from the day’s
catch. It is a common occurrence here...”
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“...Santa Marta Railway to Cienga Grande (24 miles), whence
passengers and mails are conveyed by a small river steamboat
ivery sixth day to Barranquilla. Fare $3.80 (15s. 10d.).
Port Limon. A railway runs from Port Limon to San José
md the Pacific coast. The stations on the line are as follows :
Stations Miles Height Feet Stations Miles Height Feet
Limon — II Peralta . 54-2 1055
M,oin Junction . 3-5 Turrialba 62.5 2037
Z£nt Junction . Vlatina 20.4 21.9 55 Tucurrique Juan Vifias 68.7 738 3286
Madre di Dios . 28.7 Santiago 78.1 ^536
Indiana Junction 35-7 Paraiso . 85-4 4392
Siquirres . 36.7 196 Cartago 89.4 4760
La Junta . 38.6 187 El Alto . 92.2 5137
Florida 43° Tres Rios 96.0 4362
Las Lamas 45-2 87 San José ' 102.1 3868
SIGHTS. Some two hours after leaving Colon,
steamers coasting along the Spanish Main pass Porto
Bello, a former Spanish stronghold.
[ Porto Bello was peopled with the inhabitants of
Sombre de Dios in 1584, when that city was virtually
ibandoned after having been repeatedly...”
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“...Dominica, 236, 238-
41
Roseau River, Dominica, 240
Roseau River, St. Lucia, 167
Roseau Valley, St. Lucia, 176
Rose Hall, 282, 287, 289
Rosignol, 372, 373, 380
Roubiliac, sculptor, 272
Rouen, Barbados, 75
Rousselan, M., 168
Rowley, Vice-Admiral, 264
Roxburgh, Tobago, 144, 146
Royal Agricultural and Com-
mercial Society of British
Guiana, 376
Royal Bank of Canada, 19,
119, 159, 172, 218, 261
Royal Irish Rifles (89th Foot),
132
Royal Munster Fusiliers (the
101st Regt.), 288
Royal Netherlands West In-
dia Mail, 414, 451-2, 454,
455. 4*°
Royal Scots, 223
Royal Victoria Institute, 122
Royal York Rangers, The, 85
Ruatan, 184, 390
Rum, 153, 253, 369, 438-9
Rum Cay, 59
" Runaway Bay," 281
Rupert, Prince, the " Grand
Pirate," 200 ; his tomb,
245
Rupununi River, 369
Rust, Major Randolph, 137,
443
Rutter, Charles, 95
Saavedra, Villalta de, sculp-
tor, 347, 350
Saba, 333, 337
Saddle, The, Trinidad, 129
Sage, Mt., 247
Sail Rock, 317-8
St. Andrew, Mt., 181, 189
St. Andrew’s, Barbados, 75
St. Andrew’s Kirk...”
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