Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-11

coolies in the sugar factories. or the Carfbs.
Among niggers only one in hundred
works. 7 other ninety nine look on and tax
and give advice. But they be men ana
women ali right. though our bosun, Jim
Bradley, says tits generally thought they
haven't got no souls. st. Vincent De the
place where arrowroot comes from After
that we went down to next Island. by name
of Grenada, and seed a long row of rocks
sticking out OF the sea, which be called the
Grenadines. They are scorched-up places
just splashes of yellow rock against the
bfue sea: but folks dwell in some or EN-
and on some live nought but the wild goats
and pelicans. The fishes in these seas fight
like hell and be always a-lashing the sur
face with their fms and tails, seemingly.
Can't live and let live. by the looks OF II.
A flying fish do put me~in mind of myself.
for he's always moving on. III he bides IN
the sea, barracudas and other chaps go Tor
him. and when he comes out for san IN
the air the birds are after him. Then the
swordhsh go for the porpoises ana the
sharks go for everything. 80
Grenada be bigger place than 81 VIM
cent and very wild up on the mountains py
the look of it. All along the sea runs n
strip of silvery sand. and cocoanut pains
almost dip in the water. Our tub caned
here and there, and l seed wonderfui me
goyles and coombs running Inland. al inh
of blue air and forests and waterfalls a.
tumbling down off great crags In the noun
tains. TITS an awful savage island as was
throwed up by volcanes out of the sea once
pom a time and will be throwed down
again in like manner sooner or iater-so
Jim Bradley says.
Grenada be a wonnerful brave place for
nutmegs which you might not know grow
pom trees like almond trees. There ne
male and female trees, and one male goes
to every ten females. fine thing. even
If you was tree. to have ten wiNes-so
Bradley says! But l only want one, ana
that's my dinky Minnie. so brave ana SO
lovely
st George. Grenada, we stopped at for
a week, and / seed a great deal OF the
place. They've got a lunatic asylum ana
klink there; and they want 'em both. MIG
gers often go mad, but 1t bant from over
work, that | will swear.
The king of the Carlbs lived here, but
he was poor fool and believed the French.
They gived him a few bottles of brandy
and he gived them his island on conditions.
But of course they broke the conditions:
And pretty well all of the Caribs died
fighting The last of the kings men jump
ed into the sea and was drowned rather
"'rhe market would make you die OF
laughing I'm sure. Never seed such
clatter of business even to Moreton on d
Saturday Such a row. You'd think the
wealth of the nation was changing names
but you could buy up the whole lot pre'S
near for thirty shilling. But gay Dlt 'l
colored scenery, / promise you. with the
women's turbans all a-bobbing, nke mn
lion colored parrots. It's very me piace
for cocoanut palms also. the It.le youns
nuts look like giant acorns In long sprlsS
I went to a Niger man on business ana
met with some mighty strange slghts III ms
garden. There was land-crabs Hved mere
and a tame tortoise and nursery OF
Young cocoanut trees and a nursery OF
young niggers also for the man was ram
ily man and had a lot of little people. DAT
NV Youngest darter,' he said TO me, anu
nointed to a little maid playing along win
the lizards and things and dressed the same
rs them. a. liz,
...Dat NV son ober dar,' he said and dat
NV next Youngest son. and dem gals eating
dat shaddock-dey twins.
IT told him I never seed Drawer lot
childer and then he went in his house ana
fetched out his wife and his old father ana
his aunt And / praised the iot ana .olu
him what a terrible lucky chap ne was:
and he got so pleased that he gNeu INC nan
a baroow-load of fruit =,
.aT'here's a lake inland by the name OF
Etang, and the niggers say how the mother
of the rain lives in 1t. But told EN- tnat
the mother O. rain lives home along with
us in the Cranmere pool pom DartyWoor.
But they wouldn't believe that! anyway
their mother O. rain belongs 10 r Upean, s snu
silent place she do live In. all ma IN pains
and ferns and wonderful trees blazing with
flowers. They do say the witch comes up
out of the water of a moony night 10 sing,
hut I don't know nought about that IL go
and have a look and see IL i couldnt teel
trap here and there; but there pan no
game worth naming in these parts. though
bradley tells me they've got deer In Iopa-
CO. If there be, I'll bring some pairs OF
their horns home to e to stick over the
doors to Hangmans hut. How do wish L
was there; but bant no good coming back
vet awhile and when do, us will have to
be awful spry wonder II you've found out
aught-you or Titus? / dare say such a
clever man as him have got wind Of the
truth afore now be bringing home some
pink coral studs for him. You might let him
know it, If you please. suppose they've
gived back my gun to you? They did ought
to- since no doubt everybody thinks De
dead If you be very pressed for money. sell
| the gun to Sim: but not If you can help 1t.
Mister Henry Vivian be In Tobago, and
| I hope as he'll suffer to have speech
with him some day soon. 'Twould be
| tower of strength to get him pom our side.
But such q stickler as him and so quick to
| take a side and hold to 1.-The may be