Under the Southern cross in South America . MAIN STREET. KINGSTON, YEAR AFTER EARTHOUAKE. EN ROUTE TO MARKET, KINGSTON FLOWER OF THE ANTILLES 31 Zouave, with turban and in tight jacket, swaggering along in all thepomp of uniform; there you will see an Lidian coolie woman gor-geously apparelled, her small hands and feet ornamented withsilver bangles and her lithe, sinuous body enmeshed in parti-coloredgarments. You will see vehicles of all kinds—stylish turnouts fromthe fifty-horsepower tonneau of the wealthy and the burnished car-riages of the Governor to the crazy mule carts and lumbering dra
Under the Southern cross in South America . MAIN STREET. KINGSTON, YEAR AFTER EARTHOUAKE. EN ROUTE TO MARKET, KINGSTON FLOWER OF THE ANTILLES 31 Zouave, with turban and in tight jacket, swaggering along in all thepomp of uniform; there you will see an Lidian coolie woman gor-geously apparelled, her small hands and feet ornamented withsilver bangles and her lithe, sinuous body enmeshed in parti-coloredgarments. You will see vehicles of all kinds—stylish turnouts fromthe fifty-horsepower tonneau of the wealthy and the burnished car-riages of the Governor to the crazy mule carts and lumbering draysof the poorer classes. You may be pestered by the hackmen, solicit-ing trade, for it is claimed they are the most obtrusive and offensivein the world. In Jamaica, however, as in every other up-to-datecenter, the taxi is fast taking the place of the hack. There are several fine hotels in Kingston. The largest and bestis the new Myrtle Bank, on the site of the old one, three storieshigh, built of brick, on three sides of a square in the centre of whichis a flower garden. The charges
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