Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-08-13

| ''B. and S. which we do, adding to brace
Of B. and S. a sweet and insidious beverage
called shrub, made from rum and lime
| Juice. We are then permitted to proceed
| but only after stirrup-cup of something
| else, the name of which do not clearly re-
member, and go on to negro village
where the doctor removes sort of cata-
| ract from a little girls eye and attends to
! a score or more Of waiting patients. dispos-
! ing of them with astonishing CELEBRITY.
At the Doctors Little Home.
| AS my way lay past the doctors little
house, perched upon a conical hill over
| looking a lovely valley with river run
| ming through it, of course 1 cannot pass
! him by, so go up with him for an hour to
rest on his veranda. But the while
| he is brewing an aromatic cocktail-or while
| I am slipping it, I forget which-he has
given orders for his man to take my mule
| to Betsey's Hope, as am to spend the night
! with him. He says Mccall will not care;
| and, besides he is tired of dining alone So
| after a sherry and bitters we sit down to a
| sumptuous repast, thu meats of which are
| native, but the claret and champagne from
| the French island of Martinique ] should
| mention, also, that the "Angostura" in the
| bitters was from the near island of Trfni-
! dad. where it is made by the inventor. and
| not from up the Orinoco, as its name would
| Indicate.
| My friend has a professional engagement
| somewhere. and SO after dinner he has the
| coolie girl draw q little table to my elbow,
| out on the veranda, and leaves me to gaze
over the glorious valley, with carafe Of
| water and a bottle of "three-star Hennes-
! sy'' company. He demonstrates with
! me on his return because have not touch
! ed either; but acknowledges that travelling
| in the heat of the day is rather oppressive,
| and he does not wonder that I snoozed.
| However, he orders another "B. and S."
| and we chat till one in the morning, when
| l retire, to awake at daylight with a beast
| iy headache, which shower bath only
| n an6 for yyrhf oh
| physician for the time being, my friend Or
| ders another soda with stiffene1 in II, as
"pick-me-up." I would then fain depart,
| but have to remain to breakfast and do
and hot, though a refreshing sea breeze
| tempers the heat of it somewhat.
Welcomed Mt the "Grcat House."
I gallop down a mile-long avenue Of
| palms till I reach the shore. along which
| the road winds again beneath a perfect
| forest of cocoas, with the foaming surf
| dashing high up on the beach. A drogher
| between her and the shore, filled to the
| gunwales with sacks of sugar, while the
great chimney of the nearby 'works'
| sends cut clouds Of smoke from the burn
| ing begasse, or sun-dried cane stalks. I
! ascend a hill to the great house." where
! my welcome Is what 1 had expected, but
warmer than l deserved, and here 1 re-
main for week, hunting In the woods for
| rare birds and riding with the jolly pro-
prietor of Betsey's Hope over his vast es-
| tate. This is but a specimen leaf, plucked
| from wfthered and age-worn journal Of
my own adventures in Crusoe's Island and
! which, though 1t may not be interesting, Is
| yet literal transcript of one days doings.
But, to return to my original PROPOSE
ton, the veritable island where Crusoe
! lived "for eight-and-twenty years" is this
same Tobago; and, moreover, the inirnita-
bic Man Friday" who was such a con-
ISOLATION to Crusoe in his latter years, was
a Carib of the West Indies.
F. a ODER.