Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-14
LIFE IN lsAovA ISLAND.
us Climate Coed, Although il is in the Tropics

Pardon me-" said Mrs. Want-tO-
Know to the last newcomer In the
boarding house cotcrie. but where die
you say you were from? I've heard
YOU mention the name Of the place
several times, but I never could make
it OUT
"lna2ua," said Mrs. Newcomer.
How 60 you spell it," some one
asked, and the letters were told on
with obliging emphasis.
Thanks. Well--now. I know you'll
put us down as simpletons or as ncvei
havin. been to school. but where is it:
Is it a town or a country seat or what:
We gathered that it was somewhere
far off, because you spoke Of paying
duty on your bonnets. but whether It's
by the equator or in the antipodes we
have no map and no memory
ITS an island: one of the Bahamas
down by Cuba" came the prompt as
surance amid echoes Of "Oh. why. o:
course; we ought to have KNOWN" &c
Then the lady from the strange place
went on to say that she was quite ac-
customed to identifying it's where
abouts: that during her stay In New
York she had had occasion to give hcl
address to people in various businesses;
and they each and all invariably looked
as blank or AS interested as IL she hat
designated some locality in Mars VI
the moon.
people don't know much about In
aqua because it's 50 far from Nassau
$50 miles) and has never done any
thing to make a stir in the world" sale
the island dwclier. even the on
cyclopacdias hardly give us Il line. anC.
then way down ut the foot of the list
when we are in reality the third big
gest Of the Bahamas and have the
only harbor that is an open roadstcaC
in the entire group. For years an
years We have made and shiooec
quantities Of just as good salt as eve!
Turks Island did. but Turks 1sianc
salt was the trade brand and So it was
all classcd in together under that head
We're in the trade wind belt. which
gives us Il superb climate. climate
more cquablc and bcarablc in summer
Than Nassau begins to have. although
we are SO much nearer the equator.
and that is only 81 to IS degrees ri
winter The English man-of-war that
makes the rounds three or four times
a year, the royal mail steamer from
Nassau. and the New York liner twice
a month are the only visitors we car
count on, besides the lighthouse ten
der and the trading ships. but we
don't offer any Inducements for them
."Thcre isn't a. hotel or boarding
place on the island, or even a wharf to
l,pd ut. II Won came there YOU would
have to climb down the steamers side
into a small boat, and then. when the
small boat got near the beach, be
Rftcd nm. neck and heels. in big
strong nerro's arms. and be taken
ashore that way. Nobody. howevc,
s,,ff .st;,ted and uprish they may be
but must make their 1nagua advent IN
this fashion. OF course, if inclined
and able to. Won might nut on a bath
suit and. swim ashore. hut any dignity
Of first anpcarance; IL dcbarred, any
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hJgh dipnitaries of all sorts. even his
,nrdshin tho bishop of tho Church Of
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