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the icy North-Easter that blows in winter over our own island. As we neared the tropic of Cancer the heat in creased, and our sea-water baths in the morning became unpleasantly warm, the reverse of bracing. The sunsets were remarkably brilliant, with an afterglow that gave us a twilight quite unusual in these latitudes. The sun as it neared the horizon sank down almost perpendicularly into the sea, a large glowing orange mass, often streaked with dark stretches of cloud, which, by comparison, made the orb more bright and fiery golden. On our bows the tops of the white clouds would be tipped with the sun’s last rays, and astern the clear sky alternated between liquid blue and a delicate green. A truly tropical sunset is very beautiful. Plying fish were now getting abundant, and the fragile nautilus hoisting its tiny pink sail a thousand miles from land, was for a morning or two a source of interest. All signs of life were welcome, and a great sensation was created on board at the advent of a little stranger in the shape of a common yellow butterfly, which was carefully captured and as tenderly released. We saw a few whiles, blackfish, and a thresher, two frigate birds, and, as we neared land, a pair of bo’sun birds. On Sunday morning we have service on deck, and very impressive is service at sea. The capstan, covered with a cushion and the Union Jack, does duty as a reading desk, and a piano and cornet are used to accompany the hymns and chants. Nearly the whole of the passengers, and as many of the sailors as can be spared, attend ; and though we have clergymen on board the Ceylon, the captain, in accordance with the usual custom, reads the prayers, lessons, &c. No sermon is attempted, so the service is short, a quality not so well appreciated on sea as on shore. We have lotteries or sweepstakes every day but Sunday, as to the amount of the ship’s daily run in knots ; and on two or three days we have held regular " sports ” for the sailors, such as climbing the greasy poles, steeplechases, obstacle races, tournament, cockfighting, and other amuse ments common at sea. On the 16th of February, leaving Dominica on our star board bow, we passed close to the beautiful island of Martinique, clothed with foliage to the summit of its highest hill, and here we had our first sight of the tall straight palms standing in relief against the sky. This, our first glimpse of the West Indies, charmed us greatly, and many were the regrets that time would not permit our calling at Fort Royal or Fort de France, its capital town and port, snugly enconsed in a well-sheltered bay. Steam ing past Fort de France, and just before we reached the southern extremity of the mainland of Martinique, we passed the celebrated Diamond Kock, an isolated pyramid six hundred feet high, which in 1804 actually took rank and was entered in the Admiralty books as “ H.M. Sloop of War Diamond Rock.” Lord Howe, finding that the French vessels escaped into Port Royal by running between the rock and the mainland, seized it, and planted a battery of guns on its summit; for one year the rock was held by a handful of men under Lieut. James W. Maurice, but in June, 1805, sixteen French ships of war and gun boats attacked the strange fortress, whose garrison, after des troying three gun-boats, were obliged to capitulate (Silver'). I succeeded in getting a cabinet negative of the Diamond Rock from the bridge of the yacht as we steamed past. Leaving the island of St. Lucia, celebrated for the quality of its sugar, behind us, we steered straight for Bridge town, at present the seat of the Government of the Wind ward Islands. From my post at seven o’clock, on the morning of Tuesday, February 17th, I saw Bridgetown (the port town of Barbadoes) lying about half-a-mile from the spot we had chosen as anchorage. Low, flat, and unprepossessing as it looked from the sea, it is really an interesting and comparatively thriving West Indian town. It seemed especially interesting to us who had just passed eleven monotonous days on a smooth sea, unbroken even by a gale, and under a torrid and almost cloudless sky. Barbadoes is considered to be peculiarly healthy, though warm, the heat being tempered by the N. E. trade wind, which blows constantly over the island. The uniformity of temperature, so marked in Barbadoes, is one of the chief causes of its salubrity, and the reason of its being used as a sanatorium for the neighbouring islands. Tuber cular consumption is almost unknown. A resident told me the death rate of the island was only 13 per 1,600, a marvellously low and hardly conceivable figure for a hot climate. The dryness of the air, and absence of those sudden changes of temperature so productive of all diseases, have much to do with the longevity of its inhabi tants. Barbadoes, however, labours under the disadvan tage of being visited occasionally by awful hurricanes, by which thousands of people have perished. Earthquakes, too, are not uncommon. Going on deck after an early breakfast, I was much amused at the boatloads of jabbering negroes and negresses, all vaunting the superiority of their wares, or endeavour ing to pass on board testimonials as to their capabilities as washerwomen. Clad in the cleanest of white starchen garments, one full-blooded old.negro woman’s ebony face was a perfect picture. Perfectly good-humoured was this crowd, chattering, grinning, and showing their white, regular, strong teeth. s After an early breakfast we went ashore in the ship' boats, and landed on a wharf literally swarming with negroes, a large proportion of whom seemed to have no particularly pressing business on hand, and were waiting for something to turn up. Some vessels were being laden with sugar, brought down in barrels to the wharf in long trucks, pushed swiftly along by three shouting negroes. A schooner was discharging its gaudily-dressed negro passengers from another island, and altogether the narrow wharf was a scene of noisy, amusing, picturesque confu sion. I went straight to the hotel recommended to us as the best in the place, and treated myself to a delicious so- called “ lemon squash,” made with fresh limes, far more refreshing than the drinks that go by the name of lemon squash in England. A lemon squash is made in the West Indies by taking a bottle of soda water, a little sugar, the juice of fresh green limes, of which two or three slices are also thrown in, and a few lumps of ice ; the whole being then swizzled into a froth by a peculiar shaped stick, or shaken up by mixing in two tin tumblers, one inverted over the other, the upper one a little smaller than the lower. The hotel seemed quite cool after the heated cabins of our ship, and the meals were enjoyable, much inferior as the accommodation was to any good English hotel. The houses in Barbadoes are low, chiefly of one storey,
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