The Delta independent., 1916-05-05

or garden COWS. The old wives and
the Gu est gu it dts make a great
deal of noise in the morning and are
helped wake us up by the innumer
able cocks. The Hindoos. however
poor, seem to keep a few fowls, and
morning breaks with a Chandelier
chorus from far and near. 1t is almost
dark at six when one rises because
| den, inside and out. that it is useless
to do otherwise. But while enc is
dressing day comes all of a sudden
too, and before seven the sun ia shin
Then early coffee or tea as you wish,
is served in your bedroom, or in the
hotel diningroom as you prefer. At
eleven. or twelve O'Clock we have what
is called breakfast" but is really an
elaborate course lunch Then we get
afternoon tea at four. and dinner at
seven. This island was discovered
and colonized by Spaniards, then
French settled on it. and developed
it, finally English conquered it, but
the streets are still full of Spanish
faces. the directory has many Span
ish names, and some people here still
speak Spanish altogether in the home,
and English only with much diff
Guilty. One sees many people with
mixed blood with brown skins and
dark hair; there has been much blend
ing in the past of Spaniard and negro
A purely white, obviously pure white
person is as about one in four or five,
and there will soon be still fewer.
for it is getting hot enough here to
drive pleasure travel away and visit
ors will go home.
We have just had Roosevelt here
looking delightfully."- jolly. The Ten
nessee has been lying in harbor here
and some of her officers have been
here calling on Teddy" His wife. |
a sweet looking woman was with him |
He came to this island on a sports
mans errand, to shoot some speci- |
mems of little owl that is found |
only in the mountainous parts of the |
island and I believe in one spot on the |
South American continent, the oil-oil, |
the only vegetable feeding species |
that flies By night.
We get furious little spats OF show
ers, two or three day, but the land
is rapidly DarchinH Some trees have |
quite lost their leaves. Fallen leaves |
begin to litter the paths in the botani- |
cal gardens, and more fall with every |
puff Of wind The rains viii begin |
in May We sleep every night in
tents of mosquito netting, but l have
not yet met with mosquitoes. nor with
any ottier insect pests. That reminds
me to tell you that the timber. eating
ants are her. Jack would be inter !
ested to see the little galleries that
ey builH for themselves on the tire
trunks. They stand up like thu veins
On ones WRIST. and look a little darker
than the rest of the wood. They are
Just tunnels built of chewed-up wood |
anu under these the ants rravei IN
the Shade all the way to- the nest \
which is a nuss of die same material |
FAR up above ground Thsssf ants rid
die all the native wood by chevins |
holes in it, so tfiHr evenrnaIy the
timber is converted into So CT
and whoever depends on
It's support FANS. So the bufliiers here |
prefer to- use pine and spruce from |
because the ants dislike the
i'm it. and SO lt-s it alone |
All along; tile, water front one sees
piles of boards. shingles. barrsi- stsve.. |
etc.. brought; down hare by ship
Atisotiouateiy,
MAUD GOING