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GARDENS OF THE CARIBBEES
Volume II.
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. II.
ILLUSTRATED
Boston
L. C. Page & Company
MDCCCCIV
Copyright, 1903
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
———
All rights reserved
Published July, 1903
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co
Boston Mass., U. S. A.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I.] | Island of Trinidad. “Iere” | [11] |
| [II.] | Island of Trinidad. La Brea | [35] |
| [III.] | The Spanish Main | [64] |
| [IV.] | In Venezuela. Caracas | [101] |
| [V.] | In Venezuela. Caracas to Puerto Cabello | [125] |
| [VI.] | Curaçao. City of Willemstad | [153] |
| [VII.] | The Southern Cross | [189] |
| [VIII.] | Kingston, Jamaica | [198] |
| [IX.] | “Cuando Salide La Habana” | [239] |
| [X.] | A Memory of Martinique | [247] |
| [INDEX] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Volume II.
| PAGE | |
From Our Balcony, Caracas, Venezuela | [Frontispiece] |
The Barracks, through Live-oaks and Mahogany-Trees, Trinidad | [17] |
Governor’s Palace and Public Gardens, Port of Spain, Trinidad | [21] |
On the Way to the Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad | [31] |
The Beach of la Brea, Trinidad | [39] |
Asphalt for Northern Pavements, Pitch Lake, Trinidad | [47] |
Loading Cars, Pitch Lake, Trinidad | [53] |
A Native Washerwoman on the Pitch Lake, Trinidad | [57] |
Where the Mountains Meet the Sea, La Guayra, Venezuela | [65] |
Caracas and the Mountains, Venezuela | [75] |
Equestrian Statue of Bolivar, the Liberator, Caracas, Venezuela | [85] |
An Interior Court, Caracas, Venezuela | [91] |
Cathedral and Plaza, Caracas, Venezuela | [111] |
A House Beside the Sea, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela | [127] |
A South American Street, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela | [149] |
Across Ste. Anne Bay, Harbour of Willemstad, Curaçao | [157] |
Some of Our Friends at Willemstad.—Where the Basket-Women Waited, Willemstad, Curaçao | [161] |
The Landing, Willemstad, Curaçao | [165] |
A Jolly Dutch Port, Willemstad, Curaçao | [173] |
A Snug Harbour, Willemstad, Curaçao | [185] |
Kingston, Jamaica, from the Bay | [199] |
Rio Cobre, near Spanish Town, Jamaica | [203] |
A Native Hut, Jamaica | [209] |
The Bog Walk Road, near Spanish Town, Jamaica | [213] |
Where We Landed, Kingston, Jamaica | [223] |
El Morro, Entrance to Harbour, Santiago de Cuba | [229] |
The Plaza, Cienfuegos, Cuba | [233] |
The Grave of Cervera’s Fleet, West of Santiago de Cuba | [237] |
The Wreck of the Maine, Havana Harbour, Cuba | [241] |
Cabañas, La Punta, and Harbour Entrance, Havana, Cuba | [245] |
St. Pierre and Mt. Pelée before the Eruption, Martinique | [249] |
St. Pierre and Mt. Pelée after the Eruption, Martinique | [253] |
Rue Victor Hugo Before the Eruption, St. Pierre, Martinique | [257] |
Rue Victor Hugo after the Eruption, St. Pierre, Martinique | [261] |