Chapter I: Front Matter

GARDENS OF THE CARIBBEES

VOLUME II.

Travel Lovers' Library

_Each in two volumes profusely illustrated_

Florence
By GRANT ALLEN

Romance and Teutonic Switzerland
By W. D. MCCRACKAN

Old World Memories
By EDWARD LOWE TEMPLE

Paris
By GRANT ALLEN

Feudal and Modern Japan
By ARTHUR MAY KNAPP

The Unchanging East
By ROBERT BARR

Venice
By GRANT ALLEN

Gardens of the Caribbees
By IDA M. H. STARR

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By GRANT ALLEN

L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY
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CARACAS, VENEZUELA.]

GARDENS OF
THE CARIBBEES

Sketches of a Cruise to the West
Indies and the Spanish Main

By
Ida M. H. Starr

IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II.
_ILLUSTRATED_

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
_MDCCCCIV_

_Copyright, 1903_
By L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Published July, 1903

Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. ISLAND OF TRINIDAD. "IERE" 11

II. ISLAND OF TRINIDAD. LA BREA 35

III. THE SPANISH MAIN 64

IV. IN VENEZUELA. CARACAS 101

V. IN VENEZUELA. CARACAS TO PUERTO CABELLO 125

VI. CURAÇAO. CITY OF WILLEMSTAD 153

VII. THE SOUTHERN CROSS 189

VIII. KINGSTON, JAMAICA 198

IX. "CUANDO SALIDE LA HABANA" 239

X. A MEMORY OF MARTINIQUE 247

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME II.
PAGE

FROM OUR BALCONY, CARACAS, VENEZUELA _Frontispiece_

THE BARRACKS, THROUGH LIVE-OAKS AND MAHOGANY-TREES, TRINIDAD 17

GOVERNOR'S PALACE AND PUBLIC GARDENS, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD 21

ON THE WAY TO THE SAVANNAH, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD 31

THE BEACH OF LA BREA, TRINIDAD 39

ASPHALT FOR NORTHERN PAVEMENTS, PITCH LAKE, TRINIDAD 47

LOADING CARS, PITCH LAKE, TRINIDAD 53

A NATIVE WASHERWOMAN ON THE PITCH LAKE, TRINIDAD 57

WHERE THE MOUNTAINS MEET THE SEA, LA GUAYRA, VENEZUELA 65

CARACAS AND THE MOUNTAINS, VENEZUELA 75

EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF BOLIVAR, THE LIBERATOR, CARACAS, VENEZUELA 85

AN INTERIOR COURT, CARACAS, VENEZUELA 91

CATHEDRAL AND PLAZA, CARACAS, VENEZUELA 111

A HOUSE BESIDE THE SEA, PUERTO CABELLO, VENEZUELA 127

A SOUTH AMERICAN STREET, PUERTO CABELLO, VENEZUELA 149

ACROSS STE. ANNE BAY, HARBOUR OF WILLEMSTAD, CURAÇAO 157

SOME OF OUR FRIENDS AT WILLEMSTAD.--WHERE THE BASKET-WOMEN WAITED, WILLEMSTAD, CURAÇAO 161

THE LANDING, WILLEMSTAD, CURAÇAO 165

A Jolly Dutch Port, Willemstad, Curaçao 173

A SNUG HARBOUR, WILLEMSTAD, CURAÇAO 185

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, FROM THE BAY 199

RIO COBRE, NEAR SPANISH TOWN, JAMAICA 203

A NATIVE HUT, JAMAICA 209

THE BOG WALK ROAD, NEAR SPANISH TOWN, JAMAICA 213

WHERE WE LANDED, KINGSTON, JAMAICA 223

EL MORRO, ENTRANCE TO HARBOUR, SANTIAGO DE CUBA 229

THE PLAZA, CIENFUEGOS, CUBA 233

THE GRAVE OF CERVERA'S FLEET, WEST OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA 237

THE WRECK OF THE MAINE, HAVANA HARBOUR, CUBA 241

CABAÑAS, LA PUNTA, AND HARBOUR ENTRANCE, HAVANA, CUBA 245

ST. PIERRE AND MT. PELÉE BEFORE THE ERUPTION, MARTINIQUE 249

ST. PIERRE AND MT. PELÉE AFTER THE ERUPTION, MARTINIQUE 253

RUE VICTOR HUGO BEFORE THE ERUPTION, ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE 257

RUE VICTOR HUGO AFTER THE ERUPTION, ST. 267

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