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GARDENS OF THE CARIBBEES
Volume I
Travel Lovers’ Library
Each in two volumes profusely illustrated
Florence
By Grant Allen
Romance and Teutonic Switzerland
By W. D. McCrackan
Old World Memories
By Edward Lowe Temple
Paris
By Grant Allen
Feudal and Modern Japan
By Arthur May Knapp
The Unchanging East
By Robert Barr
Venice
By Grant Allen
Gardens of the Caribbees
By Ida M. H. Starr
Belgium: Its Cities
By Grant Allen
L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY
Publishers
200 Summer Street, Boston, Mass.
G A R D E N S O F
THE CARIBBEES
Sketches of a C r u i s e to the W e s t
I n d i e s a n d t h e S p a n i s h M a i n
By
Ida M. H. Starr
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
ILLUSTRATED
Boston
L. C. Page & Company
MDCCCCIV
Copyright, 1903
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
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All rights reserved
Published July, 1903
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co
Boston Mass., U. S. A.
To
My Beloved Children
TO THE READER
THESE sketches were written during a memorable cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main in the winter and spring of 1901. There has been no attempt to write a West Indian guide-book, but rather to give preference to the human side of the picture through glimpses of the people and their ways of life and thought. With this idea it was thought best to give attention only to such of the ports visited as were full of human interest and typical of the life about the Caribbean Sea.
There was a strong feeling that we were sailing in romantic waters, and there has been no desire to eliminate the element of fancy from these pages.
It may be of interest to remember that at no time since—and perhaps never before—could this voyage have been made under the same conditions. Since then man and the greater powers of Nature seem to have conspired to make much of this delightful region forbidding to strangers. Several ports have become dangerous because of fever and plague; proclamations in French and pronunciamientos in Spanish have adorned West Indian street corners; Haïti has reverted to its almost chronic state of riot and revolution; the Dominican republic has again chosen a President whose nomination came from a conquering army; Venezuela has been full of alarms and intrigues; while already the Germans are beginning to show their hand in the Caribbean; Martinique and St. Vincent have been desolated by volcanoes then thought to be practically extinct; and of delicious St. Pierre there remains but a sadly sweet memory.
I. M. H. S.
10 June, 1903.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I.] | The Voyage | [11] |
| [II.] | Port-au-Prince, Haïti | [35] |
| [III.] | Santo Domingo | [83] |
| [IV.] | San Juan, Puerto Rico | [124] |
| [V.] | Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | [162] |
| [VI.] | Martinique | [197] |
| [VII.] | Martinique, “Le Pays des Revenants” | [246] |
| [VIII.] | Island of Trinidad. Port of Spain | [275] |
| [INDEX] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Volume I.
| PAGE | |
Where the Pomegranate Grows, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | [Frontispiece] |
Map of the Cruise | facing [34] |
The Landing-Place, Port-au-Prince, Haiti | [39] |
Waiting for Customers, Port-au-Prince, Haiti | [43] |
The “Coaches,” Port-au-Prince, Haiti | [47] |
Main Business Street of the Capital of the Republic of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti | [51] |
A Public Fountain, Port-au-Prince, Haiti | [59] |
A West Indian Africa, Port-au-Prince, Haiti | [71] |
Courtyard of the American Legation, Haiti | [77] |
A Mill for Sawing Mahogany, Haiti | [81] |
The Old Fort at the River Entrance, Santo Domingo | [87] |
A Closer View of the Old Fort, Santo Domingo | [91] |
The Cathedral and the Statue of Columbus, Santo Domingo | [95] |
Ruins of Castle Built by Diego Colon, Santo Domingo | [99] |
Where Columbus Planted the Cross, Santo Domingo | [103] |
Entrance to the Fort and Military School, Santo Domingo | [109] |
Looking Across the Plaza, Santo Domingo | [113] |
Along the Ozama, Santo Domingo | [119] |
Looking to Sea from San Juan, Puerto Rico | [125] |
Boat Landing and Marine Barracks, San Juan, Puerto Rico | [135] |
The First Trolley-Car in San Juan, Puerto Rico | [141] |
The Military Road across Puerto Rico, near San Juan | [145] |
Inland Commerce, Puerto Rico | [151] |
A Ranch near San Juan, Puerto Rico | [159] |
The Harbour, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | [165] |
Hillside Homes, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | [171] |
In Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | [175] |
Charlotte Amalie From “Blue Beard’s Castle,” St. Thomas | [183] |
On the Terrace, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | [187] |
Coaling our Ship, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas | [191] |
The Sugar Mill near St. Pierre, Martinique | [203] |
Coming to Welcome Us, St. Pierre, Martinique | [207] |
Looking from the Deck of Our Ship, St. Pierre, Martinique | [213] |
The Harbour and Shipping, St. Pierre, Martinique | [217] |
The Lighthouse on the Beach. St. Pierre, Martinique | [221] |
The Street along the Water-Front, St. Pierre, Martinique | [225] |
The Cathedral and Water-Front. St. Pierre, Martinique | [231] |
The City and Roadstead, St. Pierre, Martinique | [249] |
Near the Landing-Place, St. Pierre, Martinique | [259] |
The Rivière Roxelane, near St. Pierre, Martinique | [271] |
The Dragon’s Mouth, Entrance to Gulf of Paria, between South America and Trinidad | [277] |
The Business Section, Port of Spain, Trinidad | [283] |
A Village Greeting, San Fernando, Trinidad | [289] |
Where the Lepers Live and Die, Trinidad | [303] |