Under the Southern cross in South America . 0 to cultivate the fields. There are some crim-son-colored Maroons, half-ljreed descendants of the early inhabi-tants who refused to be conquered by the English; originally Ma-roons were the issue of the native Indians and Africans. Otherblood has since mingled in their veins. They still keep independentand aloof. They have nothing in common with the ordinary Negro,on whom they look down with supremest contempt. The almostubiquitous Chinaman is also found in Port ytonio. White tran-sients are always coming and going in large numbers. There are many p
Under the Southern cross in South America . 0 to cultivate the fields. There are some crim-son-colored Maroons, half-ljreed descendants of the early inhabi-tants who refused to be conquered by the English; originally Ma-roons were the issue of the native Indians and Africans. Otherblood has since mingled in their veins. They still keep independentand aloof. They have nothing in common with the ordinary Negro,on whom they look down with supremest contempt. The almostubiquitous Chinaman is also found in Port ytonio. White tran-sients are always coming and going in large numbers. There are many places in the vicinity of Port Antonio wellworth visiting. The Golden Vale, once a great sugar estate, nowone of the largest banana plantations in the island, is situated in avery rich district, watered by the Rio Grande, one of those swift,erratic streams which flow pleasantly within narrow limits one day,but the next are swollen to turgid torrents by the storms in the sur-rounding mountains. Hundreds of acres of the old cane-fields have. •LITTLE ROSIE, PORT ANTONIO
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