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the roof being usually covered with shingles of red wood ; some were, however, roofed with corrugated iron, the glaring patches of which did much to destroy the quaint picturesqueness of the streets. The roads in Barbadoes are very white and trying to one’s eyesight. Formed of white coral, they are dusty and dazzling, rendering the use of blue spectacles almost a necessity. Living is cheap in the island, house rent being the chief item of expense ; owing to the dense population labour is cheap, and do mestic servants (black) plentiful. The vegetation of the island is brilliant and luxuriant, frangipanni and other flowers of beautiful smell and varied and lovely hue, being intermingledwth tropical trees; spreading figs,with their curious hanging air roots; the slender cocoa-nut palm, with its cluster of nuts ; tamarinds, Cordelias, and crotons grow place, at which we stayed only long enough to turn and water the engines. On our return journey we stopped to inspect a sugar mill in full work, and saw the whole pro cess of sugar-making, from crushing the freshly-cut cane between huge iron or steel rollers, boiling and clarifying the liquid, &c., till we were able to taste the crystals of pure sugar. The machinery alone of this mill, made by a Scotch firm, cost £8,C00. We were offered the best moist sugar at these works for 2d. a pound. On returning to our train, we found one of our passengers had joined some of the negro plantation hands, and, to the music of our band, was dancing blithely, as much to the amusement of the assembled negros as our own. Vis-a-vis with a strapping negress, the sight was very curious, and met with much laughter and applause. I N ing in the gardens of the houses at Bridgetown. A stranger will be struck by the teeming population and the immense number of negroes he will meet in the roads, especially women, the men being away at work in .the day time. The lately-started tram cars are crowded with passengers, the fares being low, and the venture should pay a handsome dividend to its shareholders. There is a railway running to a point some twenty-five miles from Bridgetown, but the population is poor, and as the sugar industry is now in a very bad state, as a financial scheme it is not a success ; a dividend of 4 per cent, is, however, guaranteed by the island government to the shareholders. The permanent way has been very roughly laid, and the line is far from level, therefore rapidity of travelling is out of the question. For a considerable distance the line runs along the sea coast, and the views occasionally are very fine. Somewhat stony, bleak, and barren in parts on the land side, looking along the coast line, even on a calm day, the scene is very fine. The long, white rolling waves rushing shoreward, beat with resistless force against and over the huge, rugged, detached masses of coral rock with which Pursuing our way to Bridgetown, we passed through many sugar plantations, the sharp-edged leaves of the cane sweeping near, and sometimes entering, the carriage win dows, making it dangerous to look cut. For some dis tance along the line a hedge of cactus has been planted, which, mingling with cabbage palms and breadfruit trees, will one day make a beautiful hedge, as well as grateful shade from the burning sun. We arrived at Bridgetown just before dark, and after dinner several of us went to the Club, a cool, though, as it seemed to us, a somewhat ill-found and bare place. The streets of Bridgetown at night were pitchy dark, the gas being out of order. The next morning I was up betimes, and with a resident, to whom I fortunately had a note of introduction, drove through the English barracks to the the shore is strewn, splashing, dashing, and spouting the foam and spray in thick showers high in the air, and send ing the mist far inland. During our stay in Barbados, we chartered a special train to take us the length of the railway. Starting at ten in the morning, we seemed a long time getting clear of Bridgetown, the line running, after the fashion of railways in America, over the streetsand roads, entirely unprotected by gates, hedges, or fences. We passed in near proximity to negroes’ houses, the inmates crowding the fences and lining the roads, staring enquiringly at a train full of “ white folks.” We passed through fields of waving sugar cane, with their black labourers; clumps of cocoa-nut palms, and untenanted sugar mills ; wind-mills after the pattern of those so familiar to us in Kent and Sussex ; aud at about half-past eleven halted for lunch in a little bay, which re minded one somewhat of North Devon in its general out line. The rough coral rocks here had been detached in large blocks by an earthquake, and hurled down to the sea ; their bases had been washed away by the action of the sea, a comparatively fine pivot of rock, in some cases, only re maining, after the manner of the Logan rocks or stones of Cornwall. Groups of these rocks were piled in a manner greatly resembling Stonehenge. We selected a spot with overhanging trees for our luncheon, and the table-cloths were laid on the sand, pieces of coral rock being used to keep them down. We found it somewhat dangerous to stand under the cocoa-nut palms, the heavy fruit being very likely to fall unexpectedly on one’s head. Our iced lemonade and claret was very enjoyable in the tropical heat, and full justice was done to the cold meats, &c., pro vided. Here we gathered specimens of coral, delicate sea weeds, and a curious kind of brown pod, containing purple coloured seeds, about the size of large marbles, called “ horse nickers.” After a stay of about an hour and a-half, we rode on to the terminus of the railway, a barren and uninteresting beach at Hastings, an admirable bathing place, protected by reefs from those predatory sharks so common in these waters. One meets with so many subjects for the camera, that it is somewhat confusing, especially as our sight seeing and photographing has to be done at almost express speed. However, in the course of the morning I was able to take a view of the Government buildings, a funny little darkey boy with some sugar cane on his TIL N ei . - ; " -2133
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