The Press., 1888-06-07

time suffering from measlts, and i'll conse- quenca the authority of the queen had been delegated. while the author of their being had sailed to Green Turtle Gay, twenty five miles away, to summon Dr. Le Cato, the only physician prActicing iu the North ern Bahamas. -....
 While the ssresdent magistrate" pro tenn. was struggling with the d faculties he encountered in entering the vessel, Mir. Hale and passed like superior beings through the crowd, which opent before and closed behind, eyeing us the while as something spectacular to be presently it. lumined with calcium lights. Under the guise of solicitous hospitality we were ex, amined with photographic minutenees and with multitudinous offers of ''chauev" (sweet) oranges, cocoanut milk, sapod'llas and information was mingled with SC ni au diblecomment on our persons and the ap- purtenances thereof.
 Up Parliament lane, the towns one high way, we were led to "the lookout" small emiuence commanding view of the wh 'le key and the surrounding sea.
 l To the east, past countless horizons, stretched the open All ,ntic, unbroken by nearer land than the coast of Portugal. In the background its water showed as indigo, Tightening by subtle shadings, which only the eye of an artist could appreciate, to Saxon blue, and then, by bo'der grada'ions, to peculiar ceru1ean gray, unresponsive. As the coloring of distance was lost the sea approached it's natural hue-the "white water" emerald-of this part of the world hue of pc culiar brilliancy and warmth ot tone impossible to the uneducated conc D. tlon, and widely different from the neutral sea greens of higher attitudes. From the | noIH 1r, oL1 . r. the rocky shore irregular stretches of surf like lines of bAttle, brought the md oceans free defiance as they pounded on hidder reefs. The northern sea reached, like tho eastern, to a level line of purple haze a
 the horizon, and opposed nothing to tho full sweep of the eye except the shapAles
 lines of Man O War Gay. Ilnmedi ,tel,
 below Us and sheltered from thesun by tn
 islands rocks lay beautiful little road
 stead, its emerald dotted wi h anchore,
 vessels, beyond which rose few tropics,
 palms, backed by wall of luxuriant green } cry, ending at the right at lighthouse c
 spiral black and white. Away toward tn
 tropics the sea again spread ill emerald an ! indigo. Overhead was furnished Neapo
 ltan sky with never a fleck of floating clnu
 in all it's sapphiline expanse. The pctul h its wealth of color, artistic warmth an sott shadln8s had Ill It suggestions of tn Neapolitan coast, while the tempered an 7 braclng sea air recall, the exhilarating a mosphere of Capri. About the harb.
 were vivid touches and blazes of color sne gestlve of MT. Bierstadt's tropical gem without their sensational exaggeration.
 Sunday is gala day in Great 'Arho though the good people would be scanda lzed at such a thought. Their dissipat o
 is ecclesiastical rather than seculal , Through the week the men are for tn
 most part absent sponging or fishing, or E the orange and pineapple plantations i the neighboring uninhabited keys, but Sa
 urdry evening the harbor fills with return a ing vessels, and at 8 o'clock the foIlowiu l. morning the population attends Sunda
 school en masse, the white bearded gran, ? sire of 80 as we'll as the )ddler of 3 Thrl 7 are two sanctuaries on the island, bot e built of limestone mposition. One
 called the Wesleyan Mission and th Q other the "Chapel of the Church of Ens t land. The four colored familie, of tl n island attend the chapel, which fact a e counts for the election of Me ho lism b ;, several scores from the white ari t. c ac, '- The morning service at the m ssion o something to be remembered: Esoteric