Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months . h they can behad in the West Indies. VIIILIFE ON ST. KITTS THE ABORIGINES, THE SETTLERS AND THEIR WARS CHURCHES OP ST. KITTS A STORY OF DEAF MUTES PHOTOGRAPHS, COINS, AND CURIOS A DRIVE AROUND THE ISLAND AND A NEGRO WEDDING Among the pleasant acquaintances formed atSt. Kitts was that of Captain George Locke andhis amiable wife. The captain lives on the islandin the service of the Quebec Steamship Company,and he accompanied our party on the southern tourthrough the islands as far as Trinidad. His houseis in town, but stands in a garde
Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months . h they can behad in the West Indies. VIIILIFE ON ST. KITTS THE ABORIGINES, THE SETTLERS AND THEIR WARS CHURCHES OP ST. KITTS A STORY OF DEAF MUTES PHOTOGRAPHS, COINS, AND CURIOS A DRIVE AROUND THE ISLAND AND A NEGRO WEDDING Among the pleasant acquaintances formed atSt. Kitts was that of Captain George Locke andhis amiable wife. The captain lives on the islandin the service of the Quebec Steamship Company,and he accompanied our party on the southern tourthrough the islands as far as Trinidad. His houseis in town, but stands in a garden with palm treesand clustering vines and an ancient rose bush whosebranches climb over a long veranda and adorn it,with great blossoms of the cloth of gold. Fromhim we gathered much useful information as wesailed along, and some of the facts about the islandof St. Kitts will be of interest before we resumeour voyage. The island is oval-shaped, being thir-teen miles long, from three to six miles in width,and contains an area of about forty-four thousand 60. LIFE ON ST. KITTS Gl acres, three-fourths of which is under uncultivated part is mostly embraced in theConarrhee hills, the precipitous crags of MountMisery, and a long lowland stretching out to seaupon the southeast. The remainder of the islandis well tilled and fertile. The aborigines were Carib Indians, a sturdy andwarlike people who inhabited the island in 1493,when Columbus discovered and gave it his declares that he was moved to call it , because one mountain seemed to himto be bearing a smaller mountain on its shoulder asthe Saint Christopher is represented in early artcarrying the infant Saviour. The English, whenthe island came into their possession, changed itsname to St. Kitts. But the Carib name wasLiamuiga, the fertile, a designation which is morebeautiful and appropriate than either of the Spanish discoverers did not settle here, and itwas not until after
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