The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-28

to be discussing whether the garrison al
 Barbadoes shall be removed to St Lu-
 cia. The scenery here. next to Domin-
 lea, is the finest upon these islands. It
 is wild and mountainous with here and
 there beautiful little valleys of pale
 green sugar cane. There are two very
 remarkable mountains on the shore of
 St. Luca, known as the "Pitons," called
 by the sailors the "Donkey's Ears.
 Seen from the distance they look like
 two long ears; close to, they are sharp, precipitous rocks rising straight up
 from the waters edge, one of them 2,S00,
 and the other 5000 feet above the sea, The greater part of St. Lucia is wild and uninhabited; it would be fine
 hunting ground were it not for the
 deadly fer-de-lance. The bite of this
 snake is as fatal as that of the cobra
 of India; it is so common on this island
 and also on Martinique, that 1t is un-
 safe to go outside of the villages, A peculiar thing is, that this snake is not found elsewhere in the world except on the islands Of St. Lucia and Martinique. l The next stop is at Barbadoes, which | has the finest climate of them all It is scarcely possible that there can be a
 finer climate anywhere on earth than
 that of Barbadoes. There are no moun- l tains on this island the landscape is
 much like that of England-every foot of it cultivated. The trade winds blow constantly across it, so that the temper ature Is the same day after day the
 whole year round. It rises to about 80
 at midday in the winter, S5 perhaps in | thn and fo11c TX n Hk a f night, rarely going down as low as 60. There are no long rains at any time in the year, only short showers
 almost every day, usually in the morn ing To the early riser, there can scarcely be a lovelier morning; the air. between four and six o'clock, all the year round is like our June weather, and even that is for us an unhappy
 comparison, for it is much finer. Be- tween five and seven in the afternoon,
 it is also delightful; just warm enough and just cool enough to be comfortable.
 Bridgetown, the port, is pretty and well built city of about 25,000 inhabi- tants including it's suburb, Hastings.
 Hastings is a seaside suburb, bearing about the same relation to Bridgetown that Savin Rock does to New Haven.
 The white people are very cultivated
 and very friendly and hospitable when
 you get acquainted with them, but it is
 not always easy to get acquainted with
 them. Barbadoes Is the most thickly populated spot in the world except China. There are about 1S0,000 people
 on this little speck of the earth's sur face, only about 1,500 of them are white. Probably there is no city in the West Indies so much resorted to by invalids as Bridgetown. There is hotel at Hastings which Is kept by an American and which is decidedly American in its character, called the Marine hotel. Board at this hotel is from two to five dollars a day according to the accom- modations. There is an excellent hotel and cafe In the city itself, known as the "Ice House.. and there are boarding houses where one can get excellent fair and good rooms for nine or ten dollars a week. I mention the Bay Mansion" between Bridgetown and Hastings, a convenient distance from both where the rooms and fare are excellent. But the best place on the island for in- valids is Bathsheba on the Windward side. Here the trade winds blow almost a blast; the air is cool and bracing all the year round. It is the sanitarium of the WindWard islands, and many an in- valid owes his recovery to it's bracing air. People afflicted with malaria, ner- vous prostration, and even consump- tion, have been wonderfully benefited and in many instances wholly cured, by winters sojourn at this delightful nh Of thn Wtnd- ward islands seem by common consent to send their patients, who need change of air to Ba'hsheba. The bath ing on this shore is fine all the year round. The scenery, too, is finer than any other part of the island. Barbadoes is coral island, and the coral formation at Bathsheba is especially interesting. The coast is largely composed of coral rocks, which the waves have worn into the most fantastic shapes. There are | two hotels, or rather boarding houses, | in Bathsheba; I can especially recom- | mend that kept by Miss S. E. Meyers. | It is the resort of the better class of | tourists. Miss Meyers has resided for | long time in America, and Americans are especially welcomed at this house. The prices for board at Bathsheba are from $S to $15 per week.
 But the changes and surprises in | store for the traveller are not confined | to the scenery on land, there are almost | as many in the ocean and the sky. | There is not only a much greater | variety of color in the waters of the | Saragossa sea than there is in those of | our more northern seas but there are | colors that are never seen in our wa ters. There are tints of the most won derful beauty in the waters about the l Windward islands, and especially along | the coral reefs, of which description can convey no idea. The colors of the sun set change, too, as one approaches the tropic of Cancer, and change very de- The long northern twilight gradually disappears until 1t ceases all most entirely, and after sunset night falls quite suddenly.
 The round trip from New York to Barbadoes and return is $10S, and there is no trip on which the passenger gets so much for his morey. 1t takes about B month to make the complete io""ney back and forth. There are special trips with special rates from New York to and return, but not far, I think, from the figures above given