Chapter I: Front Matter

THE WEST INDIES

_By the same Artist._

MOROCCO

containing 74 full-page reproductions
in colour of MR. A. S. FORREST’S
pictures.

TEXT BY S. L. BENSUSAN.

_Price 20s. Net._

THE WEST INDIES

PAINTED BY A. S. FORREST
DESCRIBED BY JOHN
HENDERSON · PUBLISHED
BY ADAM AND CHARLES
BLACK · LONDON · MCMV

Contents

CHAP. PAGE

I. HISTORICAL 1

II. JAMAICA 11

III. THE TOWN OF KINGSTON 27

IV. THE PEOPLE OF JAMAICA 41

V. THE PHILOSOPHY OF A JAMAICAN GAMIN 57

VI. THE DEVOTION OF THE JAMAICAN NEGRO 65

VII. TURTLE FISHING 73

VIII. THE WOMEN OF WILD MAN STREET 81

IX. THE WEST INDIAN ARMY 89

X. A WEST INDIAN COURT HOUSE 99

XI. THE MILITARY CAMP AT NEWCASTLE 107

XII. THE RECREATIONS OF THE BLACK MAN 115

XIII. THE DANDY AND THE COQUETTE 127

XIV. BOG WALK 135

XV. THE POLITICS OF A JAMAICAN NEGRO 143

XVI. THE WHITE MAN’S POLITICS 155

XVII. THE RAILWAY IN JAMAICA 163

XVIII. ALLIGATOR SHOOTING IN A WEST INDIAN SWAMP 171

XIX. COMMERCIAL JAMAICA 181

XX. THE FLORA OF JAMAICA 193

XXI. A WEST INDIAN RACE-COURSE 201

XXII. THE HILL STATIONS 211

XXIII. A FRAGMENT 219

XXIV. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO TOURISTS 227

XXV. CERTAIN THINGS THE WEST INDIAN TOURIST MUST NOT DO 237

XXVI. THE CARIBBEAN GROUP 243

XXVII. HAYTI 257

XXVIII. IN CONCLUSION 265

List of Illustrations

1. Coming from Mass, St. Lucia _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

2. Lightermen, off Barbadoes 4

3. Sunrise over the Hills, Jamaica 8

4. Castries Bay, St. Lucia 12

5. Kingston Harbour and Port Henderson 16

6. Constant Spring, Jamaica 18

7. A Negro 22

8. A Street in Kingston, Jamaica 26

9. An Old Gateway, Kingston 30

10. A Fruit-Seller on a Side-Walk, Kingston 34

11. The Tobacco Market, Kingston 38

12. A Market Woman, Jamaica 40

13. An Old Woman 44

14. Cocoanut Palms, Falmouth, Jamaica 46

15. A Milkmaid, Barbadoes 48

16. Waiting Maids 52

17. Diving Boys, Kingston 56

18. Diving Boys, off Barbadoes 60

19. Going to Church 64

20. A Gingerbread-seller, St. Lucia 70

21. The Turtle Wharf, Kingston, Jamaica 72

22. Boats off Dominica 76

23. Night, Anotta Bay, Jamaica 80

24. A Coloured Girl 84

25. A Soldier of the West Indian Regiment 88

26. A Tropical Landscape near Castleton 92

27. Outside a West Indian Court House 98

28. A Negro Nurse with Chinese Children, Jamaica 104

29. Tropical Rain 106

30. A House on the Hills 110

31. Going to Work, Barbadoes 114

32. Rosie, a Jamaican Negress 120

33. Countrywoman going to Market, Barbadoes 124

34. A Martinique Lady 126

35. On the Road to Market, Jamaica 132

36. A House near the Bog Walk, Jamaica 134

37. Dry Harbour, Jamaica 138

38. Sunset, North Coast, Jamaica 144

39. On the Beach, Barbadoes 148

40. Off Trinidad 150

41. Steamers unloading, Barbadoes 154

42. An Evening Party, St. Thomas 160

43. A Roadside Market, Jamaica 162

44. The Arrival of the Royal Mail Steamer, Dominica 166

45. A Quay, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica 170

46. Outhouses on a Plantation, Jamaica 174

47. Mid-day Heat, Jamaica 178

48. A Fruit-seller, Barbadoes 180

49. A Waiter 184

50. The Market-place, Barbadoes 188

51. A Terrace Garden on the Hills, Jamaica 192

52. Hut on a Plantation, Jamaica 196

53. A Jockey at Cumberland Pen, Jamaica 200

54. A Coloured Lady on a Race-course, Jamaica 204

55. A Bungalow on the Hills, Jamaica 208

56. The Market, Mandeville 210

57. Stalls outside the Market, Mandeville 214

58. A Road in Mandeville 216

59. Sunset over the Hills 218

60. Huts, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica 222

61. The Cathedral at Spanish Town, Jamaica 226

62. A Garden Terrace, Jamaica 230

63. Resting by the Way, Jamaica 234

64. Outhouses near Kingston, Jamaica 236

65. The Capital of St. Thomas 240

66. Black River, Jamaica 242

67. Roseau, the Capital of Dominica 246

68. Mont Pelée, Martinique 248

69. An Old Man, St. Thomas 250

70. Nevis 252

71. A Guadeloupe Lady 256

72. Huts on a Country Road, Jamaica 260

73. Passengers embarking from a Quay, St. Ann’s Bay 264

74. Evening after Rain, Jamaica 268

_The illustrations in this volume were engraved in England by the
Hentschel Colourtype Process._

HISTORICAL