CHAPTER XXII.

Going home--Retrospect--Alternative courses--Future of the Empire--Sovereignty of the sea--The Greeks--The rights of man--Plato--The voice of the people--Imperial federation--Hereditary colonial policy--New Irelands--Effects of party government 318

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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 in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica 194 Kingston and Harbour, from Cherry Gardens 234 Havana, from the Quarries 258 Port au Prince, Hayti 288

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