The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-05-29

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streams of purest water. direct from
the upper heights, are carried down both
sides of every street to the sea wall.
through which it rushes with ceaseless
/ flow. There are few pretentious
mansions all gray and white. with
deep verandas and green jalousies-
relics of the old time French regime:
but most Of the modern dwellings are
as commonplace and unpicturesque as
can we'll be imagined They are mere
wooden boxes, sixteen by twenty feet,
with bonnet roofs nd CLASHES Win
doWs. one need not be told that the
ugly structures were brought over.
ready made, from the step-mother
country, for the convenience of her
colonlsts. Many of these himsy houses
give evidence of long desertion. and all
are more or less lapidated-doors
| hanging by one hinge, or refusing to
! hang at all, and bald on top in patches
where the shingles have disappeared.
| But over each a gigantic tamarind or
mango, or pepper-tTee spreads its pro
| tectlng arms in perpetual benediction
! The more pretentious mansions of gray
stone have queer little Frenchy courts,
paved with black and white pebbles set
on end in patterns, like patchwork
quilt. In these courts the master
smokes his interminable cigarettes and
entertains his friends: the mistress
brings her embroidery OF guitar. and
the children play. TIE whole town is
/ Ike one great green orchard and over
! broken roofs and walls of rudest ma
sorry hang lines and paw paws.
oranges, aguacatts, sapadillOs and
other strange tropical fruits. amid a
wilderness of flowers. The market
square, near the south end OF the town,
is surrounded by shops and stalls and
permeated with the vile odor of salted
fish. Just beyond the market, on a
| high bluff is the quaintest of stone
forts. commanding the roadstead and
/ harbor--in which. nowadays, there is
seldom any craft but sugar-sloops and
7 an occasional trading vessel besides the
weekly steamer There is a govern
! low and yellow and surrounded by
! flower gardens. Roseau itself has only
about three thousand inhabitants, and
| the whole island less than thirty thou
| sand, not more than six hundred of
whom are whites. Though Dominica
/ has belonged to England since 1914 and
most of its citizens are black as the
| typical ace of spades. it is still intense
| ly French in feeling, manners, customs
and religion. In spite of a fine new
English church, with a modern clock
; in its tower and four imposing figures
standing near its entrance, the dingy
| old Romish cathedral continues to alb
sorb all the audiences, except handful
| of British officials who perfunctorily
attend service on Sunday mornings.
Were not the Episcopal clergy main
tanned out of the public funds, they
would certainly get scant maintenance
in Dominica
For the last quarter century this is
land has been member of the Lee
ward colony, and sends representatives
to the general legislative assembly at
Barbados; but has its own local legisla-
ture and treasury, and residen. lieu
tenant governor. Although England
controls things political here, she is
not in high favor socially Dominican
aristocracy is French to the core, led
by a few old Creole families of wealth
and measureless pride, who maintain
almost patriarchal rule on their estates
in the hills. They are delightfully."- hos
pitable, i'll a quaint, old-world fashion,
which savors a good deal of feudal dis
|
no roads for riding at ease around the
island, and no carriage to be hired even
if there were boulevards over the noun
tains, the stranger would better make
up to the planters without delay. I'm
less one has friends in Roseau, or
brings letters of introduction, he has
no alternative but to spend his nights
aboard-ship.
Through the kindness of acquaint-
ances, we made horseback excursion
up the valley back of Roseau, and a
little way into the hills, just far
enough to get glimpse into the interior
of this volcanic Eden. In the first
half dozen miles we forded the Roseau
river twice, besides crossing it several
times on bridges, as the cratic trail
climbed up4nd up the sides of the
mountains chat seem gathered to-
gether like woven garment ndshaken