The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-23

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 Special Correspondence of the Journal
 and Courier.)
 Rosea, Dominica, April 20, 1902,
 Persons who are unfamiliar with West Indian topography are likely to confound little Dominica, of the Lee ward islands, with Santo Domingo, the big Republic, (so-called which forms the eastern half of Haiti. A glance at the map shows you that the former IS situated on the outer edge of the semi circular archipelago which separates the Caribbean Sea from the broad AL Iantic, while Santo Domingo lies far to the westward on the other side ot For to Rico. The name-pronounced as II spelled Dome -e-nee-kah - stgnlhes Land of Sunday, 'and was bestowed by Columbus because he happened to dis cover it on Sunday morning. This was in the course of his second voyage, when he had sailed from Cadiz with considerable fleet and fifteen hundred men, for the purpose of finding out TOT himself if the stories were true that had been told him by the mild people of Hispaniola concerning the proWesS and fierceness of the Carlos, Dominica was the first land visited in his quest for the cannibal aborigines who had given their name to the sea, and US lsl- ands. He found plenty of them here who proved more than match TOT the better-euuipped Spaniards; and' strange to say, Dominica is to-day the only island of the Caribbees upon Wnlch the ancient people remain in numoers enough to be styled nation.
 Columbus own experience, as set forth in letter to his sovereign, IS \ identical with that of every modern vovager who rediscovers this beautlful island The great Admiral wrote: "At dawn of day November 3, 1493), lofty island was discried to the west. As the shin moved gently onward, other lsl- ands rose to sight, one after another all covered with forests and enlivened by flights of tropical birds While the whole air was sweetened by the Ira grance of the breezes that passed over them"
 Though only about thirty miles long by eleven wide, Dominica is the loftlest 2 island of the Antilles and most broken and diversified. As you approach 1t in the early morning a mass of green and blue seems to rise up out Of the mist to meet you, which gradually re- solves itself into wooded hills and mar row valleyes and mountains towering aboye the clouds Later in the day, when the sun has partially dispelled the naists and clouds, thousand uneX- spected ridges and eminences stand con- fessed, mounting one above another, ever higher and higher, like colossal staircase. You remember that when Z Columbus returned to court, he was asked by Queen Isabella to describe Dominica. He took sheet of, paper in his hand, crushed it. and then throwing if on the table so that all its crumbles expanded, declared that was the best representation he could give of it. While the sinile is good one so far as most West India scenery is concerned it does scant justice to Dominica, with it's sky-piercing mountains, deeply furrow- ed by gorges and ravines it's central ridge cbntorted into grotesque shapes, and it's shoreward cliffs-huge pinnacles of rock rising sheer from the water their bases worn by Atlantic surges in- to innumerable caverns through which surf rushes and recedes with thunder GUS roar Roseau, the capital chief port and only town of consequence on the island, lies on the western side fronted by magnificent bay and back ed by black eminence which keeps it's head forever in the clouds In reality this Lake Mountain" as 1t is called stands five miles inland, but seems to X directly overshadow the port. It is the least of the corden broken furrowed, scanned and scared, but covered with 1uxuriant vegetation. Palms and orchards crowd the valleys; planta- tions, vineyards and cultivated fields display their brown and green and gold on all the hill-sopes and even on the summits of the ridges; every gorge and ravine is filled to the brim with tall trees and tangled verdure; while here and there an isolated peak, bare and desolate, juts head and shoulders above his fellows and where the outer bull wark of hills grows faintly blue in the distance, it suddenly drops off into the sea, in huge precipices. Everywhere, away up in the land of the sky" the yelowish- h-green of sugar-cane is plainly distinguished against the dark setting of primeval forest. It is an actual fact that many of Dominica's cane-fields are perched on hills so rough and steep that the crop. when cut, has to be let down in bundles by ropes.
 Roseau, the capital, occupies the mouth of small, intensely green val ley, formed by the Roseau river. It is the uuaintest and dearest little place to be found in a journey around the world with half a dozen long, straight streets that cross each other at right angles, all well paved with rugh stones, but which never echo the sound of wheels-for the simple reason that wheels are unknown on the island. And presently the streets dwindle down to three bridle- paths leading out of town one north and the other south along the coast. and the third, more narrow and tortuous, climbing the eastern noun