The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-08
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Hayti and the West Indies.
BY MAJOR w. E. DOYLE-Artice 70 81 y


steaning down Gonaiye's Bay from
Port-au-Prnce, # with the magnificent
tree-covered mopntaIns on either hand,
we pass Gonalves Qsland, by which the
fishermen are plying thelrEvocatlon from
the sail boat or goleta, which Is used for
al purposes. The water is gerry clear
and the bottom being of madrebore or
white coral, you can sec the fish dart
Ing around fifteen to twenty feet below
the vessel. These fish In West India wa
tors exceed everything for variety OF
| species and brightness Of coloring. The
'grunt" has alternate lines OF yellow and
purple; the goat Is pink and silver;
the doctor is like he'd * copper
the "Welshman is pink with yellow
stripes! tho .'hind" is white with red
and brown spots; the king fish" is very
large; and there is also the rock parrot.
cabalero, silk fish, blare DYE and Span
ish hog. The barraconta Is q noble fish,
Very much like q pike, while the splen-
did dolphin is Of bright azure color with
dark spots. The Jew fish Is to these wa
tiers as the halibut Is to our northern
coasts. The whip ray shaped like
whip, sometimes tenffeet long. with lit
Ito stings on each side to warm up poor
sailors and fishermen, from which they
call 1t sting a-rce" or stinglng ray.
There Is also the blue fish, the yellow
tailed snapper, the catfish. tho groapa,
|
erel. angel fish, pork fish. horned fish and
sucking fish, besides turtle and other
shell fish. Tho people eat everything,
| Including shark. tiS II ~ Z f "A
The giant squid,, which we know as
the octopus or devil fish, attains great
size in the Gulf and Caribbean Sea. I
saw the carcass OF ono at Paranlaribo,
/ the body OF which was ten feet long,
and the two main tentacles over twenty
| FIVE feet long, covered from end to end
with suckers two inches In diameter, tho
other eight tentacles were smaller, but
also covered with suckers
But there are authentic accounts OF oc-
topus being seen whose bodies were fifty
feet In length, and the main tentacles,
one hundred feet The creature pro-
| crosses through the water backwards,
the motive force being supplied 4 BY d
| great syphon like tube In the squids body,
| which Is discharged rearwards. Its favo!te
mode Of hunting food seems to be in
| Swimming along the ocean surface, always
backward with Its tentacles floating
Imply beneath. while first one and then
tho other long arm is held aloft, and
this Is believed to be tho basis for the
| sea serpent stories.
founding Cape Tberlan, Jamaica, comes
in sight, about eighty miles away, and
midway In the Windward passage is the
| little island Of Navassa n no man land
| until an American company commenced
making salt and mining phosphate rock
there, But riot occurred there among
the negro hands few years ago and a
United States warship had to be sent to
settle the trouble A few hours run
brings us to Port Royal, where we enter
Kingston harbor.
between Kingston Jamaica, and the
Caribbean Sea Is a long sand spit called
the Palisades, which commences about
| four miles east OF the city and running
parallel with tho mainland. terminates at
Port Royal, thus forming a lagoon about
| ten miles long, which Is Kingston harbor,
| The entrance at Port Royal Is strongly
| fortified, and there Is also a navy-yard.
This town OF 1900 Inhabitants was prior
| to the great earthquake of 1869, the finest
city In the West Indies. When the earth
opened under the terrible quake, whole
streets with their Inhabitants were swal-
lowed up and they claim now that you
can see the ruins OF the old city at the
bottom OF the lagoon In fair weather. The
rebuilt city Yves next destroyed by fire
| In 1903, and again In 1916, and since then
! II has ceased to- be n commercial center.
| Kingston absorbed all the trade. to which
| the seat OF government of the Island was
| removed from Spanish town In 1872. The
old massive Spanish government buildings
In the latter place are now deserted, but
are objects OF curiosity to the thousands
who go there by railroad from Kingston.
The 'Athos," after unloading her
| freight Mt Kingston, commenced coaling,
| and this was n sight the passengers who
| went Up in the city missed, The pile of
! coal was hack OF the atlas line wharf,
about 1850 yards from the vessel and the