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“...CHAPTER II GENERAL INFORMATION (continued) Outfit—The Voyage—Thé Customs—Telegrams—Postal facili- ties—Population — Religion—Freemasonry—Language— The Laundry—Books on the West Indies. There is no need to buy an elaborate outfit Outfit, for a visit to the West Indies. It should be , borne in mind that the less luggage that is taken Luggage. | the better it is for the temper. Where much land travelling is contemplated, substantial leather suit ^ cases and portmanteaux are best. They can be kept in good condition and insect proof by periodical applications of brown boot polish. A capacious canvas sack, with a padlock fastening, into which surplus effects can be dumped at the last minute, is the greatest convenience, and a fold-up cabin “ tidy ” with pouches for the various articles of toilet is almost indispensable. Should the steamer be the base of operations of the tourist, steel or stout leather cabin trunks are recommended, the most convenient size being 36 ins...”
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“...92 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES are easily reached by electric tram. Here there is to be seen a large variety of palms, including the cabbage palm, the aeta, the traveller’s palm, so called because water is always to be found at the base of the leaf, the cocoa-nut palm, &c., and other tropical trees of great beauty. Here, too, will be found the magnificent Victoria Regia water-lilies in the ponds. Many of the leaves measure from 3 to 4 feet in diameter, and being turned up at the edge, they closely resemble large green trays. They and the Indian nelumbrium are weeds in the colony; but these are by no means all, for there are red, white, and blue nympheas in all their wealth of beauty. There are also nurseries and trial fields, covering an area of about 40 acres, where experiments with many varieties of economic products, and especially with seedling canes, are conducted. Formerly, new varieties of cane were only obtainable by chance variation. Now the “ arrow ” or...”
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“...‘Stores.” General lip Post Office. Savannah. I; Government | House. 142 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES citizens, Mr. Hipolite Borde. Port of Spain has excellent stores, as the shops are called, built of stone or concrete, with lantern roofs and orna- mental iron galleries, and every conceivable necessity of life can be obtained in Frederick Street and Marine Square. The General Post Office in St. Vincent Street is open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. ; on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to noon; and on Sundays and public holidays from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Savannah, known as Queen’s Park, an extensive open space of nearly 130 acres, is the centre of life in Trinidad, round which is the fashionable residential quarter. It has few trees except round the edge, but a clump of cabbage palms popularly known as the Seven Sisters forms a particularly noticeable feature. The Savannah is covered with grass, on which golf, polo, base- ball, football, and other games are played. It is here also...”
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“...148 QUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES at the instance of Sir Nevile Lubbock, who was also responsible for the development of cane farming, a system by which peasant proprietors grow sugar canes and deliver them when ripe to the factory. The principle of the central factory system in which the future of the West Indian sugar industry is believed to lie, is the grouping together of a number of estates whose sugar canes are ground at one central base, with the result that a considerable saving of expense is effected. The canes are brought to the factory by locomotives over railways, of which there are some sixty miles running through or in communication with the estates which feed this particular Usine. Princes Princes Town (8 miles by rail, and 7 by road Town. from San Fernando) is chiefly worthy of notice on account of the mud volcanoes some little distance away, which, it must be admitted, are, however, rather disappointing. Prior to a visit of Prince Albert Victor and...”
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“...TOBAGO 159 and the same applies to boating. Fish is abun- Fishing, dant in river and sea, the most appreciated being snapper, king fish, grouper, and Spanish mackerel. Eels are plentiful, and also lobsters, crabs, cray- fish, oysters, and several kinds of turtle. Deer shooting, and game birds are abundant. Among the latter is the cockrico, a bird which resembles the English pheasant, and is believed to be peculiar to this island. Tobago is also visited by migratory birds, including plovers and Ramie pigeons. The birds of plumage are superior to those of any of the other islands. The little town of Scarborough is picturesquely Principal situated at the base of a hill 42 5 feet high, over. SightB‘ looking the harbour of the same name. At the top of the hill is the old Fort King George, where Fort King the ruins of barracks, military hospitals, &c., re- eorge' main to testify to its former importance. The old barrack square is now the radio-telegraphy station, and on...”
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“...ST. LUCIA 193 evacuate the island, only visiting it for the purpose of securing wood and water until some definite decision was arrived at. In 1748 the island was declared by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle to be neutral. St. Lucia capitulated to Admiral Rodney and General Monckton in 1762, but it was restored to France in the following year by the Treaty of Paris. When war broke out with France in 1778, Rodney impressed upon the Government the necessity of taking St. Lucia which he regarded as an ideal naval base, and a powerful body of troops was landed at Grand Cul de Sac Bay. Count d’Estaing, who opposed them with a strong force, was beaten off, and until the end of the war the island remained British, in spite of an attempt to recapture it in 1781; and it was from Gros Islet Bay, at the north-east of the island, that Rodney sailed with his fleet and inflicted a deci- sive defeat on Count de Grasse between Dominica and Guadeloupe on the memorable 12th April...”
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“...200 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES the base of the two conical mountains known as The Pitons. the Pitons or the Peaks, which form prominent landmarks on the leeward coast. The Gros Piton is said to be 2619 feet high, the Petit Piton 2461 feet. The Gros Piton is comparatively easy to ascend, but, until 1878, the smaller Piton was un- conquered by man. In that year, however, a Mr. Lompré succeeded in gaining its summit, and, shortly after, it was ascended by Chief Justice Carrington and a party. Local tradition relates that four English sailors once tried to climb the highest Piton. They were watched from below through a telescope, and one after the other dis- appeared. Half-way up one fell, a little higher another dropped, and then a third. It was sup- posed that they fell victims to the deadly Fer-de- lance snake, which once infested St. Lucia. nilond BetWeen St‘ Lucia and Martinique there stands Rock. an isolated rock, which rises sheer out of the water off the south...”
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“...2io GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES curate of St. John’s, a white marble cenotaph to the memory of the Hon. William Warner, a descen- dant of Sir Thomas, and an elaborate monument to Ralph, Lord Lavington, which were of exceptional interest. In the latter his lordship was represented in a sitting posture in court dress, with his plumed hat lying at his feet, and two female figures reclin- ing on either side of a small sarcophagus, the one on the left representing Astrea, with her scales by her side, and the other the genius of the island mourning the loss of a favourite Governor. On the base of the monument was a brief biographical inscription. Then again there was a remarkable monument to the memory of Mrs. Musgrave, who was thrown out of her carriage in St. John’s, and killed on the spot. A representation of the event was sculptured in bas-relief on thë cenotaph, which was of white marble. The present building, however, contains very few monuments. Among them the...”