Isles of spice and palm . Mending Nets Along the Beach. St. Kitts. Night-blooming Cereus on a Garden Wall. St. Kitts THE BRITISH ISLES south—the lofty mountains of distant Guade-loupe. But despite its natural beauties, its wonder-ful fertility and its varied surface, St. Kitts isalmost poverty stricken, though once amongthe richest and most prosperous of the WestIndies, for ^lith the decline of sugar the islandsfortunes waned and no other crop has yet beenfound to take the place of cane. Strangelyenough the great war in which G reat Britain isinvolved has proved a benefit rather than a det-rim
Isles of spice and palm . Mending Nets Along the Beach. St. Kitts. Night-blooming Cereus on a Garden Wall. St. Kitts THE BRITISH ISLES south—the lofty mountains of distant Guade-loupe. But despite its natural beauties, its wonder-ful fertility and its varied surface, St. Kitts isalmost poverty stricken, though once amongthe richest and most prosperous of the WestIndies, for ^lith the decline of sugar the islandsfortunes waned and no other crop has yet beenfound to take the place of cane. Strangelyenough the great war in which G reat Britain isinvolved has proved a benefit rather than a det-riment to Englands colonies in the West In-dies, and with the increased price of sugar is regaining a httle of her lost pros-perity. The Kittifonians, in common with the na-tives of many of the islands, have a curiousform of celebration known as Runningmask, which takes place at Christmas timeand just before Lent. It is a sort of Mardi Gras, but far wilder,more primitive, and more picturesque than thecarnival merry-making of New Orleans and 31 ISLES OF S
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