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“...6 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES prevalence of the trade-winds for the greater part of the year, the heat of the sun is far less felt than it is at the same temperature in New York or London, and for this reason sunstroke is practically unknown in the West Indies; but, all the same, visitors should on no account expose themselves to the direct rays of the noonday sun. A thorough wetting by the rain should be guarded against, and chills at sun- down avoided. Of late years, the sanitary ar- rangements in the West Indies have undergone substantial improvement, with the result that out- breaks of yellow fever are of extremely rare_ occur- rence, and they seldom, if ever, occur in the winter months. Malaria of a mild form is met within most of the islands in the summer months —Barbados being a notable exception—but new- comers are not as a rule susceptible to it until they have resided for at least ten or twelve months in the West Indies, and tourists therefore need feel no...”
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“...GENERAL INFORMATION 3i are aboard, and the steamer is slipping down Southampton Water, passing Netley on the left, or the port side, as it should now be called. On turning into the Solent, Cowes is seen, and then in succession Yarmouth, Totlands Bay, Alum Bay, and the Needles to the left, with Hurst Castle standing out on a spit of sand to the right. The pilot is dropped off the Needles, and the steamer proceeds to Cherbourg, where passengers are embarked that evening, and thence, under the present arrangements, to Vigo, whose magnificent Vigo, bay has been the scene of many naval engage- ments. The town was assaulted and burnt by the English under Drake and Norris in 1589; and, on October 22, 1702, the combined English and Dutch fleets attacked the French and Spanish in the port. Several men-of-war and galleons were taken and many destroyed, and an abund- ance of plate and other valuable effects fell into the hands of the conquerors. Vigo was taken by Lord...”
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“... three times:— p i i “ And the sun went down, and the stars came out tar over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and t the fifty-three. I Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built s galleons came, c Ship after ship, the whole night long, with her battle thunder and flame.” Here it was that Sir Richard, shot through the body and through the head, having been carried by the stately Spanish men to their flagship, said...”
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“...Barbados. Jamaica. 34 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES and this is soon expended. The fish forces its way through the water, and, rising from it, is carried forward and skims the surface, gaining momentum each time it touches the waves. The size of the fish is that of a small herring; and there are always many old travellers who will tell one how they have seen the fish fly on board the ship, though really this can only occur on sailing ships whose gunwale is near the water, unless, perhaps, the fish flies through the port- hole. The first sight of Barbados is, as a rule, ob- tained overnight, when the Ragged Point light is seen blinking on the starboard bow, and Carlisle Bay is generally reached in the early morning, when the sun rises over a scene of considerable animation. The novelty of the surroundings will never be forgotten. A string of lighters emerges from the harbour and bears down upon the steamer to tranship baggage. Boatmen jostle each other about the...”
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“...GENERAL INFORMATION 35 be on deck very early to see the sun rise over the glorious Blue Mountains of Jamaica, putting to shame the blinking light of the lighthouse at Plum Point. The difference of a voyage under such conditions An old-time from one in the old days has often been empha-Voyage' sised, and tourists who are lucky enough to be able to obtain copies of Monk Lewis’ “ Journal ” or Jeaffreson’s “ Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century ” may sit in comfort in their deck chairs as the steamer forces her way along at a speed of from fifteen to nineteen knots and read of the discomforts with which their forebears had to put up. Jeaffreson took leave of his friends at Billingsgate, was rowed down to Gravesend on 16th February 1675-6, and went aboard the “Jacob and Mary, a vessell of about a hundred and fifty tunns, 14 or 16 gunns, and a square stearne.” This was on Thursday, and on Sunday she anchored in the Downs, “where we went ashoar; but the wind in two...”
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“...S2 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES Chronological History of the West Indies. 3 vols. By Capt. Thomas Southey. London, 1827. The West Indies and Spanish Main. By Anthony Trollope. London: Chapman & Hall, i860. 5s. y The English in the West Indies. By J. A. A 1^ Froude. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1888. 6d. Tom Cringle’s Log. By Michael Scott. Peter Simple. By Captain Marryat. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. II. The West Indies. By C. P. Lucas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890 (2nd edition, re- vised by C. Atchley, I.S.O., 1905). Down the Islands. By W. A. Paton. London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888. In Sugar Cane Land. By Eden Phillpotts. London : McClure & Co., 1893. 3s. 6d. The West Indies and the Empire. By H. de R. Walker. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901. 7s. 6d. The Report of the West India Royal Commis- sion, 1897, with Appendix by Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G. (C. 8655). 2S. 6d. The Colonial Office List. London: Waterlow and Son, Ltd...”
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“... Carrington . 81 1 0 0 6 Sunbury 9Ï 1 3 0 7 Bushy Park . II 1 6 0 8 Three Houses I2f i 9 0 8 College Siding Halt Bath .... 15Ï 2 0 0 10 Martin's Bay Halt Bathsheba . 19I 2 6 1 0 Joe's River Halt . St. Andrew’s 24 2 6 1 0 At the “ Halts,” trains stop to set down passengers on notice being given to the guard, and passengers may also be taken up £...”
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“...86 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES First class return tickets are issued at single fare and one-third, to Monday. pecial arrangements for Saturday West Coast Railway Distance from George- town. Fares from Georgetown. 1st Single. 1st Return. 2nd Single. Miles. Cents. Cents. Cents. Vreed-en-Hoop . ... Windsor Forest* Den Amstel* 32 42 16 Hague 3* 42 16 Leonora 4 42 56 20 Uitvlugt* . Boeraserie . 12 56 74 28 TusgJjgn 13J 60 80 Greenwich Park. is 72 96 36 * Trains stop at these stations by signal, or on informing the conductor at the preceding station. The fare from the preceding station is charged. On the Demerara and Berbice Railway passengers may be taken up or set down at any of the customary side lines, namely, Success, La Bonne Intention, Mon Repos, Lusignan, and Hope, on payment of an extra fare of 48 cents for each stop outside the station. Ferries. Ferry-boats cross the Demerara River between Georgetown and Vreed-en-Hoop at frequent in...”
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“... to Rockstone on the Esseauebo. and thence • So i«in«k a to 6 days "being required for the For those with less time at their ijd If* by launch, 4 expedition. Rockstone. disposal, the trip from Rockstone to the Etaballi Etabaiii Falls is recommended. A lively boat’s crew of Bucks or aboriginal Indians and “ Boveanders,” as the cross between the Negro and Buck is called, paddle one down 8 miles to the Etaballi Falls, the passage of which is very exciting. The captain stands on the poop steering with a paddle tied to the gunwale and exhorting his Falls....”
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“... were ledges, on which grew a few green plants. Some idea of the size of these cliffs may be drawn from the fact that the field-glasses showed these plants to be tall forest trees. . . . After two hours’ climb through the forest, we came out on the savannah from which the Kaieteur falls. . . . “Crossing the savannah we soon reached the Kaieteur cliffs. Lying at full length on the ground, head over the edge of the cliff, I gazed down. Then, and only then, the splendid and, in the most solemn sense of the word, awful beauty...”
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“...w BRITISH GUIANA 97 of the Kaieteur burst upon me. Seven hundred and fifty feet below, encircled in black boulders, lay a great pool, into which the columns of white water, graceful as a ceaseless flight of innumerable rockets, thundered from by my side. Behind the Fall, through the thinnest parts of the veil of foam and mist, a great black cavern made the white of the water look yet more white.” Sir E. im Thurn visited the Fall again in 1879. This second visit was made at the end of a heavy rainy season, when the scene presented a much grander aspect. He thus describes it:— “Crossing the savannah, and coming to the edge of the cliff over which the Potaro falls, we once more lay down, bodies along the top of the cliff, heads over its edge. It was a very different scene from the last time. Then it was beautiful and terrible; but now it was something which it is useless to try to describe. Then a narrow river, not a third of its present width, fell over a cliff in...”
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“...JAMAICA 121 such as orange, cocoa, rubber, nutmeg, clove, mango, sarsaparilla, cinnamon, coffee, &c. Castle- Castleton ton Gardens in the parish of St Mary, on the Gardens- road between Kingston and Annotto Bay, contain a large collection of tropical plants and economic spice and fruit trees. The Gardens are a 19 mile drive over Stoney Hill and down the valley of the Wag Water. The expedition requires a whole day, and lunch may be had at Castleton Cottages. Port Royal stands at the extremity of Port Royal, the spit of sand known as the Palisadoes, which protects Kingston Harbour. It is of great historic interest, and was, prior to the earthquake of 7th June 1692, considered “the finest town in the West Indies, and at that time the richest spot in the universe,” being as it was the head- quarters of the buccaneers, and as such the emporium and mart of their ill-gotten wealth. The rector of the parish thus described the disaster“ Whole streets, with their inhabitants...”
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“...JAMAICA 123 military camp, and on to Hardware Gap, is a drive well worth taking for the magnificent panorama obtainable. The road continues down the Buff Bay River valley to Buff Bay on the north side of the island. Spanish Town, or St. Jago de la Vega, Spamsh on the banks of the Rio Cobre (Jhourfrom Kingston own' by train), was the former capital of the island. It was once a town of considerable importance, and the well-constructed group of Government Build- ings round its central square testifies to its former grandeur. Among the more notable of these are the old King’s House, the official residence of former Governors, on the west side. It was built from designs by Craskell, the then engineer of the island. The plans were approved during the administration of Lieutenant-Governor Henry Moore in 1759-1762, and the building was com- pleted in 1762, after the arrival of the Governor, William Henry Lyttelton. The expense of build- ing the House, which was considered...”
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“... of * B‘ Spain and the neighbourhood. The town is well built, and certainly one of the finest in the West Indies. The streets, which are well proportioned, are lighted by electricity, and have an excellent service of electric cars running through them (see page 137). The telephone system is very com- plete. Brunswick Square, in the middle of which is a fountain presented by the late Mr. Gregor Turnbull, is a centre of interest. On the west Red House, side of it is the Red House, or Government Build- ing. It was burnt down during a riot on March 23, 1903, but it has since been rebuilt on a greatly Port of Spain. Brunswick Square. L...”
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“...CHAPTER VII TOBAGO Robinson Crusoe's Island General If for no other reason than that it was the pect' island from which Defoe drew his descriptions for his immortal work, “ Robinson Crusoe,” Tobago has a peculiar fascination and charm. It lies about 75 miles south-east of Grenada and only about 20 miles north-east of Trinidad, the actual distance between Scarborough, its chief town, and Port of Spain being 70 miles, and the nearest points in the two islands Point Petit and Point Galera respectively. The island, of which the population is a little over 20,000, is 26 miles long and 7! miles wide at its greatest breadth, and has a total area of 114^ square miles. Unlike its neighbours, it lies east and west. The island is of volcanic formation, and a main ridge of hills 18 miles in length runs down the centre of the northern portion, cul- minating in Pigeon Point, which is 1900 to 2000 feet above the sea. Long deep valleys run up to it from either side, divided from...”
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“...CHAPTER VIII GRENADA “ Clarior e tenebris" Grenada, the most southerly island and the seat General of government of the British colony known as the Aflpeot' Windward Islands, lies 90 miles to the north of Trinidad, 68 miles south-south-west of St. Vincent, and 150 miles south-west of Barbados. It is about 21 miles long and 12 miles broad, its total area being 123 square miles, or about half the size of Middlesex, and its population 68,253. The island is very mountainous, and is only * equalled by Dominica for the beauty of its tropi- | cal scenery. The highest point is Mount St. Catherine, 2749 feet, from which spurs branch off, forming^valleys of great beauty and fertility. Along the east and south-east coast the mountains gradually slope off to the sea, but on the whole of the west coast the mountains run sheer down. The island is purely volcanic in its origin, the chief centres of eruption appearing to have been in the neighbourhood of Mount St. Catherine and...”
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“...ST. VINCENT 179 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 Nor- wegian grass. The Government Offices, the Post Government Office, and the Colonial Bank are within a stone’s Office throw of each other near the centre of the town, Colonial and Government House, the residence of the Government Administrator, is at the back of the town above House- the Botanic Garden, on the left-hand side looking from the harbour. The market is amusing during the busy hours Market, early in the morning. A comprehensive view of a large part of the island, with its picturesque mountains and valleys covered with rich tropical vegetation, can be obtained from the Mount St. Mount Andrew (2600 feet), the...”
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“...ST. VINCENT i85 by the weirdness of the scene we had witnessed, and covered with the still thickly falling grey dust. . . . The awful scene was again renewed yesterday (Thursday, the 8th) and again to-day. At about 8 a.m. the volcano shot out an imijiense volume of material which was carried in a cloud over Georgetown and its neighbourhood, causing not only great alarm, but compelling the people by families to seek shelter in other districts.” The usual plan adopted by visitors who wish to see the crater is to leave Kingstown by the mail canoe which starts each day at 2 p.m. for Chateaubelair, calling at the small leeward towns of Layou and Barrouaille en route, and arriving at 6 p.m., after giving the passengers an admirable view of the forest-clad hills of the island and the narrow valleys which run down to the sea. Pre- vious to starting, however, the permission of the chief of police should be obtained for the use of the Government Rest Room at the police...”
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“...186 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES seen, and also the former site of Richmond village, which was completely effaced and where many lives were lost. On reaching the lower lip of the crater, one has a fine view of the devastated area and also of other parts of the island, besides the large crater lake. The return journey from Chateaubelair can be made by mail canoe, which leaves each morning at 6 p.m. and reaches Kings- town at io a.m. The cost of this excursion should not exceed jQi. For those who do not care for a long day in an open boat at sea, the Soufrière can be approached by road. All round the southern end of the island, down the Palm Avenue, across Arno’s Vale, and through the little town of Calliaqua, winds the great road to Georgetown on the eastern or windward coast, by which the prosperous planters of the fertile Carib country used to communicate with Kingstown. With an early start, a riding horse, or carriage with a pair of ponies, can easily cover the...”
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“...r CHAPTER X ST. LUCIA “ Statio hand malefida carinis ” General St. Lucia, which lies about 20 miles to the south poot- of Martinique, and 30 miles to the north-east of St. Vincent, has a total area of 233 square miles, being rather smaller than Flintshire, and a population of 50,000. Its greatest length is 42 miles and its greatest breadth 21 miles. St. Lucia is volcanic, and consequently very moun- tainous. The scenery throughout the island is truly magnificent. The main range of mountains, of an average height of 1500 feet, runs north and south nearly the whole length of the island, buttressed by numerous ridges branching off from it gradually sloping down to the sea on either side, leaving narrow fertile valleys between them. The flattest parts of the island are at Gros Islet, at the extreme north-west, and Vieuxfort, at the south-east, where the backbone ceases, giving place to a plain. The Canaries Mountain (3140 feet), near the centre of the island, is the...”