Category: Travel Writing
Charles Kingsley at Trinidad--'Lay of the Last Buccaneer'--A French _forban_--Adventure at Aves--Mass on board a pirate ship--Port of Spain--A house in the tropics--A political meeting--Government House--The Botanical Gardens--Kingsley's rooms--Sugar estates and coolies 51
Barbadoes again--Social condition of the island--Political constitution--Effects of the sugar bounties--Dangers of general bankruptcy--The Hall of Assembly--Sir Charles Pearson-...
34. CHAPTER XII.The Darien canal--Jamaica mail packet--Captain W.--Retrospect of Jamaican history--Waterspout at sea--Hayti--Jacmel--A walk through the town--A Jamaican planter--First sight of...
33. CHAPTER XI.Curiosities in Dominica--Nights in the tropics--English and Catholic churches--The market place at Roseau--Fishing extraordinary--A storm--Dominican boatmen--Morning walks--Effe...
38. CHAPTER XVI.The surviving representatives of the Jamaican gentry are as hospitable as their fathers and grandfathers used to be. An English visitor who wishes to see the island is not allow...
32. CHAPTER X.Leeward and Windward Islands--The Caribs of Dominica--Visit of Père Labat--St. Lucia--The Pitons--The harbour at Castries--Intended coaling station--Visit to the administrator--...
41. CHAPTER XIX.There was much to be seen in Havana, and much to think about. I regretted only that I had not been better advised in my choice of an hotel The dining saloon rang with American v...
40. CHAPTER XVIII.I had gone to the West Indies to see our own colonies, but I could not leave those famous seas which were the scene of our ocean duels with the Spaniards without a visit to the...
42. CHAPTER XX.The air and quiet of Vedado (so my retreat was called) soon set me up again, and I was able to face once more my hotel and its Americans. I did not attempt to travel in Cuba, no...
37. CHAPTER XV.If I have spoken without enthusiasm of the working of the Church of England among the negroes, I have not meant to be disrespectful. As I lay awake at daybreak on the Sunday mor...
35. CHAPTER XIII.I am reminded as I write of an adventure which befell Archbishop Whately soon after his promotion to the see of Dublin. On arriving in Ireland he saw that the people were misera...
28. CHAPTER VI.Charles Kingsley at Trinidad--'Lay of the Last Buccaneer'--A French _forban_--Adventure at Aves--Mass on board a pirate ship--Port of Spain--A house in the tropics--A political...
36. CHAPTER XIV.A new fort was being built at the mouth of the harbour. New batteries were being armed on the sandbanks at Port Royal. Colonel J---- had to inspect what was going on, and he all...
30. CHAPTER VIII.The political demonstration to which I had been invited came off the next day on the savannah. The scene was pretty enough. Black coats and white trousers, bright-coloured dress...
25. CHAPTER III.Another two days and we were in the tropics. The north-east trade blew behind us, and our own speed being taken off from the speed of the wind there was scarcely air enough to f...
24. CHAPTER II.The last week in December, when the year 1886 was waning to its close, I left Waterloo station to join a West Indian mail steamer at Southampton. The air was frosty; the fog lay...
27. CHAPTER V.West Indian civilisation is old-fashioned, and has none of the pushing manners which belong to younger and perhaps more thriving communities. The West Indians themselves, though...
43. CHAPTER XXI.I had to return to Jamaica from Cuba to meet the mail to England. My second stay could be but brief. For the short time that was allowed me I went back to my hospitable friends...
44. CHAPTER XXII.Once more upon the sea on our homeward way, carrying, as Emerson said, 'the bag of Æolus in the boiler of our boat,' careless whether there be wind or calm. Our old naval heroes...
39. CHAPTER XVII.As I was stepping into the boat at Port Royal, a pamphlet was thrust into my hand, which I was entreated to read at my leisure. It was by some discontented white of the island--...
26. CHAPTER IV.England was covered with snow when we left it on December 30. At sunrise on January 12 we were anchored in the roadstead at Bridgetown, and the island of Barbadoes lay before us...
29. CHAPTER VII.The second morning after my arrival, my host took me to a Coolie village three miles beyond the town. The drive was between spreading cane fields, beneath the shade of bamboos,...
23. CHAPTER I.The Colonial Exhibition has come and gone. Delegates from our great self-governed dependencies have met and consulted together, and have determined upon a common course of actio...
22. CHAPTER XXII.Mountain Crater, Dominica _Frontispiece_ Silk Cotton Tree, Jamaica _Title page_ Blue Basin, Trinidad _To face page_ 72 Morning Walk, Dominica 136 Port Royal, Jamaica 171 Valley...
9. CHAPTER IX.Barbadoes again--Social condition of the island--Political constitution--Effects of the sugar bounties--Dangers of general bankruptcy--The Hall of Assembly--Sir Charles Pearson-...
11. CHAPTER XI.Curiosities in Dominica--Nights in the tropics--English and Catholic churches--The market place at Roseau--Fishing extraordinary--A storm--Dominican boatmen--Morning walks--Effe...
6. CHAPTER VI.Charles Kingsley at Trinidad--'Lay of the Last Buccaneer'--A French _forban_--Adventure at Aves--Mass on board a pirate ship--Port of Spain--A house in the tropics--A political...
10. CHAPTER X.Leeward and Windward Islands--The Caribs of Dominica--Visit of Père Labat--St. Lucia--The Pitons--The harbour at Castries--Intended coaling station--Visit to the administrator--...
12. CHAPTER XII.The Darien canal--Jamaican mail packet--Captain W.--Retrospect of Jamaican history--Waterspout at sea--Hayti--Jacmel--A walk through the town--A Jamaican planter--First sight of...
1. CHAPTER I.4. CHAPTER IV.3. CHAPTER III.13. CHAPTER XIII.15. CHAPTER XV.20. CHAPTER XX.21. CHAPTER XXI.8. CHAPTER VIII.16. CHAPTER XVI.18. CHAPTER XVIII.5. CHAPTER V.7. CHAPTER VII.19. CHAPTER XIX.17. CHAPTER XVII.14. CHAPTER XIV.2. CHAPTER II.