, 1888-04-07

Barbados, and who, for that reason, is
sometimes facetiously styled ''the Reve-
yend." Some %ag on board, who knew of
this, evidently played off the joke on the
learned Mr.. Froudel This is another in
stance of how easily Mr.. Froude could be
"taken in" He next proceeds 10 describe
the stOrming of the steamer by bumboat
men. The crews of a dozen boats clam
''bered up the gangway to dispute posses
''SiOn Of the rest Of lis, shouting, swearing,
Lying, tearing US this way and that way
'as If We were carcaseS, and they wild
''beaSts wanting to dine upon us. We
engaged a boat for ourselves as we
'~SuppoScd; We htd no sooner entered
cit than the scandalOus bOatmen pro-
"ceeded to take in as many more
''paSsengers as it would hold. Be-
''monStrance being vain, we settled the
matter by stepping into the boat next
''adjOining, and amidst h0wiS and rxecra-
''tl MS we were OOrnr t"iumphIttly off and
"were pulled in 10 rhe land" This, we
must admi truthfa,ly depjc > the Oeha.
vlOur of the Doatmtn nDt on Y Of Grenada
but of the . a'I islands, and tlt account of
the rough traItnen t. II en strangers
have to suomi ut Their hauls, is far from
exaggerated.
The description which Mr.. Froule gives
of the town of st. George, gathered fro IA
the appearances Of the few DO lions he saw,
are not only uncOmplimentary, but WE re-
greet to say, are ShamefuIiy exaggerated.
In his anxiety to colour the picture Of
"deSOlatiO1 ami dpSrrtiOn' h.. was endea-
EOurIng to portray, it would appear he has
either been Reg IrtleSS of the correctness
OF MS statements, or wilfIIiy misrepreSen-
ted facts. This is wlat he SAYS of the
town and the surroundings of the har-
b0ur:-
"Not Babylon itself, with its bats
"dnd Owls, was more dreary and de-
Isolate. The forts which hal been cree
''ted by Frenchmrn were deserted and
'dlSmantiei the castle in which we had
"Seen one haE flying was u ruin The wallis
'Were crunbling, and in many places had
"fllIen down. One solitary gun was left
''but that was Ioneyc3mbtd, and could be
'hred with only half u CHI urge 70 salute
"wiFh. 1t was tue that the forts had
"ceaSpd 10 b. o. use, bat that was because
"there was nothing left to defend. The
"harbOur is the best III the West Indies.
"Fhere was not 4 vessel In il, nor so much
''aS a boat yard where u spar could be
''replaCed, or a broken rivet mpnded.
''Once there had been a line of wharves
"but the piles had been eaten by worms
land the platforms had fallen through.
"Rpund uS when we landed were unS wept
"warrhOuSeS, with choked c0urty ards,
'do0rS gone, and window frames fallen in
''Or ont. Such IA scene Of desolItion and
"drjrctIou | never saw in my life save
''Once, a few weeks later ut jamaica
Our barbour is not The picture of abs0.
lutte desOlatiOn Mr.. Froude has rcpreSen,
ted it to be-devOid even Of $50 much as
"a b~oatyard where a spar could br re-
"placed, or a broken rivet mended."
What he took for The remains Of ga line of
wharves," which, he says, once existed,
were the remaining piles since femoved)
OF II solitary jttty formerly used by the
steamers of the r. NJ. P. Co. for cOaling
at. Fort George possesses a saluting bat,
terry of muzzle-load.ng 24-pOunders, and
quot only one hOnrycombed gun" as be as
sertS" Mr.. Froude did not see %.EunrOOfed
"warehOuseS, weed, chOked c%0urtyards,
"doOrS gone, and window frames fallen in
or out" HIS assertion is a gross misrep.
resentatiOn. The warehouses about the
harbour are, III point of fact, we'll built,
well.kept, and always well-stOcked, aud,
we venture to assert, compare very
favourably with any that he may have
seen in the more prosperous Of tn
sister colonies. But when it is discovered,
after reading further on, that Mr..
FrOude made these notes Of his
after dark, and after ha wing dined with "a