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“...History of the West Indies." 1 3 vols. By
Capt. Thomas Southey, 1827.
" At History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher
Columbus." 1 By Washington Irving. London : Cassell and
Company, Ltd., 1828.
“ The West Indies and the Spanish Main." 1 By Anthony
Trollope. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.
" The Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante, 1879-1882.” 1 By Prince
Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales. London : Mac-
millan and Co., 1886.
" The English in the West Indies, or the Bow of Ulysses." 1
By J. A. Froude. London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1888.
“ History of the Buccaneers of America.’’ By J. Esquemel-
ing, 1684. London : Sonnenschein, 1893.
" A Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. II.
The West Indies.” By C. P. Lucas. Oxford : Clarendon Press,
1890 (second edition, revised by C. Atchley, I.S.O., 1905).
" The Cradle of the Deep." By Sir Frederick Treves, G.C.V.O.
London : Smith, Elder, 1908.
" West Indian Tales of Old." By Algernon Aspinall.
London : Duckworth and Co., 1912.
" Islands...”
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“...islands.
The drawing-room is panelled with Barbados cedar.
Cherry Tree Hill, a short distance beyond the Abbey,
reached by a noble double avenue of Casuarina and
mahogany trees, commands a striking view of the
Scotland District, with Hackleton’s Cliff (see page 89)
beyond.
Farley Hill, in St. Peter’s (16 miles; if hours by
motor-car from Bridgetown), the residence of the late
Sir Graham Briggs, is notable as being the original
home of the beautiful Farleyense fern (Adiantum
Farleyense). J. A. Froude stayed here in 1887. In
the grounds are trees planted by Prince Alfred, after-
wards Duke of Edinburgh, who visited the West Indies
in the Euryalus in 1861, and by Princes Albert Victor
and George (now King George V), who toured the
Caribbean in H.M.S. Bacchante in 1879-80. From
Grenade Hill, St. Peter, a disused semaphore signal-
station (see page 88) near by, a fine view of the Scotland
District can be obtained.
At Turner’s Hall Wood, St. Andrew (14 miles; ij
hours by motor-car from Bridgetown)...”
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“...ST. VINCENT
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spots in the West Indies. Froude likened it to a
Norwegian town, with its houses along the shore painted
in the same tints of blue or yellow or pink as those in
Norway, with the same red-tiled roofs, the trees coming
down the hill-sides to the water’s edge, villas of modest
pretensions shining through the foliage, with the patches
of cane-fields, the equivalent in the landscape of the
brilliant Norwegian grass.
In the Market Square in the centre of the town and
near the pier stands the War Memorial to those from
St. Vincent who served and died in the Great War. It
consists of a handsome obelisk of Cornish granite sur-
mounted by the bronze figure of a soldier looking sea-
wards. Funds for its erection were provided by a vote
of the Legislature and public subscriptions, and it was
unveiled on Armistice Day, 1925.
The Market is particularly interesting in the early
hours of the morning.
The Government Offices, the Post Office (Egmont
Street), and Barclays Bank (Halifax Street)...”
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“...Royal Bay, «Martinique,
244 .
Foster, Sir George, 435
Foudroyant, man-of-war, 206
Four Paths, 256
Fowle, Dr. W., 286
Frank/ield, 256
Fraser, General, 222
Fraser, John, 268
Fraser, John Foster, 425
Frébault, Governor, 303
Frederiksfort, 319
Frederiksted, 321-3
Freeman, Humphrey, 278
Freemasonry, 11-12', 180, 201.
268
Frenchmen’s Hill, 318, 320
French Revolution, 361, 363
French West India Co., i-u
168
French West Indies, 299-313
Freshwater Bay, 72
Freshwater Lake, Dominica,
241
Frigate Island, 153
Froude, J. A., 107, 185
Fruits, 22
Furness Bermuda Line, 457-8
Fustic wood, 253
Fyzabad, 140
Gage’s Soufrière, 233
Gaillard Cut, Panama, 417,
419, 425
Gaillard, Lieut.-Colonel, 425
Galdy, Lewis, 270
Galeota, Cape, 112, 142
Gallows Island, 53
Gallows Point, 272
Gamboa, 420
Ganson, Wm., 405
Garcia, Cuban revolutionary,
34°
Gaspar Grande, or Gasparee,
1x3, 114, 118. 128
Gasparillo, 118
Gates, Sir Thos., 45
Gatun, 416, 4x7, 420, 422,
428-4
Geflowski, E. E., sculptor, 264
Geology of the West Indies,
2
George...”
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