LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[One of the Main Streets of Port-au-Prince]Frontispiece
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[Sifting Coffee Along a Principal Street]13
[Dessalines]Following 20
[The "Open" Market Just Below the Cathedral]Following 20
[Entrance to the "Closed" Market]28
[Marine Patrol]Following 36
[Hills Near Mirebalais]Following 36
[Civil Prisoners of Port-au-Prince Making Chairs]45
[Women Carrying in to Market Baskets Which They Have Made]Following 52
[The Cathedral]Following 52
[A Source of the Greatest Good—The Roman Catholic Sisters at One of the Many Convents on the Island]60
[The Head Nurse at the Public Hospital with Her Corps of Haitian Nurses]61
[Magistrar's Stand of Which There is One in Every Town]Following 68
[The New President's Palace]Following 68
["White Wings" of Port-au-prince]76
[Market Women Leaving Town on Their "Burros"]77
[Typical "Caille" Near Furcy]Following 84
[Railway to Leogane]Following 84
[On the St. Marc Road After the Heavy Rains]92
[Haitian Women Washing Their Clothes in a Ditch]Following 100
[The American Club]Following 100

HAITI

[I]

SARGASSO AND FLYING FISH

For the first two days out of New York harbor flocks of Herring Gulls followed us and occasionally an odd Robin and a pair of Goldfinches appeared. But after Hatteras was passed and the sea was calmer the gulls left us and flying fish took their place. Stationed at the bow I watched them dart out of the foam and skim, sometimes a few feet, often many yards. At night I took the same post and the phosphorescent "stars of the sea" shone very green against the yellow constellations above.