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] |
Gardens of the Caribbees
CHAPTER I.
ISLAND OF TRINIDAD, “IERE”
I.
HAD we known just a little more about Trinidad, it would have made a great difference in that luncheon, but it all came out wrong because some of us didn’t know. Too late to influence us in the least, we read in the Daily Gleaner, of Jamaica, that the beef sold in Trinidad is exported alive from Venezuela. To be sure, we were aware that Venezuela occupies a large part of the northern coast of South America, and were conscious that Trinidad lies enclosed in a great bay of that coast, called the Gulf of Paria, off the delta of the Orinoco River; also, in a hazy way, we knew that the Spanish Main is a name applied somewhat vaguely to that same South American coast—a relic of the days of pirates, buccaneers, and freebooting English admirals; but we no more expected to be served a roast of beef from the Spanish Main than a dish of Boston baked beans from our castles in Spain. The two dimly intangible names had ever borne a close comradeship in our minds, a poetic association affiliated them in closest bonds. The same sun kissed into rose tints the turrets of our castles in Spain and the lofty summits of the Spanish Main. The same romance lifted them both away from reality into that land just bordering upon the Islands of the Blest, and much as we longed to materialise our dreams, and make the Spanish Main a usable fact, when the opportunity came for us to do so, it slipped away from us before we were conscious of its existence.