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“... William Courteen, a wealthy London
merchant, hearing glowing accounts of Barbados from the crew
of one of hi* vessels, which was compelled, through stress of
weather, to touch there on the way from Brazil, decided to equip
an expedition and send out settlers to it. this he did under
the protection of the Karl of Marlborough, who revived the
promise of a patent which covered Barbados. Sir William
Courteen's ship, the William and John, reached Barbados in
1626 with about forty emigrants, who landed and founded
Jamestown or Hole town, near the spot where the first landing
was made. Though authorities have hitherto given Hie end of
1624 or the beginning of 1625 as the date of tne arrival of the
party, a search of the island records has made it sufficiently
clear that 1626 is actually the year from which the settlement
of Barbados dates. ...
On September 13th, 1625, if16 island was included in the com-
mission given to Warner, the coloniser of St. Kitts, his patron
being the Earl...”
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“... is the Botanical Garden.
The country behind Basse Terre is rugged and
| extremely beautiful, and interesting excursions can be
; made to La Soufrière and 1’Echelle, the volcanic craters,
'.passing the thermal baths of Bains Jaunes en route,
and to the baths of Dolé and to Sofaia.
Pointe-a-Pitre owes its name to a sailor named Peters,
who landed there in 1654, with a contingent of Dutch
families who had been driven out of Brazil for religious
treasons. It stands on the east shore of the estuary of
the Rivière Salée, which links the gulf of Grand Cul-de-
.Sac on the Atlantic with that of Petit Cul-de-Sac in
I the Caribbean and separates Grande Terre from Basse
Terre. The town is protected from the south by
numerous islets, among which the Ilet a Cochons, to the
i east, is prominent.
To the right on entering the harbour is the Usine
: d’Arboussier, the largest sugar factory in the colony.
( (Permission to visit it can readily be obtained. Over
tthe door, is a bust of M...”
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“...
of the party, from $100 to $200 per passenger.
Sir Êverard im Thum (see page 388) was the first
to ascend Roraima, the remarkable mountain in the
Pakaraima range on the western border of the colony,
in December, 1889. On it the boundaries of Guiana,
Venezuela, and Brazil meet. Though few visitors care
to face the exertion which an expedition to this mountain
necessarily involves, the following description of his
visit may be given as it has a fascinating interest:
The first impression was one of inability mentally to grasp
such surroundings ; the next, that one was entering on some
strange country of nightmares, for which an appropriate and
wildly fantastic landscape had been formed, some dreadful
and stormy day, when, in their mid-career, the broken and
chaotic clouds had been stiffened in a single instant into stone.
For all around were rocks and pinnacles of rocks of seemingly
impossible, fantastic forms standing in apparently impossibly
fantastic ways—nay, placed...”
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“...The Canadian Bank of Commerce
Paid-up Capital - - $20,000,000 (£4,109,589).
Reserve Fund - - $20,000,000 (£4,109,589).
Head Office: TORONTO.
Sir JOHN AIRD, President.
Rt. Hon. Sir THOMAS WHITE, k.c.m.g.,Vice-President.
S. H. LOGAN, General Manager.
r g?r\ Branches throughout CANADA and
Jj'J in NEWFOUNDLAND and Abroad
WEST INDIES : Bridgetown (Barbados); Kingston
(Jamaica); Port of Spain (Trinidad); Havana (Cuba)
MEXICO: Mexico City
BRAZIL : Rio de Janeiro
London Office: 2, LOMBARD STREET, E.C. 3
G.P.O. BOX 408.
CHARLES CAMBIE, Manager. A. R. PHIPPS, Asst. Manager.
“The Nassau Guardian”
ESTABLISHED 1844
NASSAU, BAHAMAS,
‘Printers :: Publishers :: Booksellers
Guide Books to the Bahamas. Views and Post Cards and
all information supplied to tourists and intending settlers.
THE HANDBOOK
OF THE
British West Indies
BRITISH GUIANA AND HONDURAS
1926 - 27.
By Algernon Aspmall, o.m.g., c.b.e.
LONDON: The Weet Indie Committee, 14, Trinity Square, E.C. 3
xiv...”
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