Isles of spice and palm . ICE AND PALM of rock, but when sailing to the eastward onemay catch ghmpses of red-roofed houses anda tiny church nesthng amid the greenery ofits lofty hills and valleys. Strangely enough,most of the Saban men are sailors and arefamed as seamen on all the seven seas, as theyhave been since the days when doughty VanTrompe and sturdy Van Home, with broomsat their mastheads, swept the oceans clean. Stranger still, throughout the Caribbeanone sees trim sloops and schooners with Sabapainted across their counters as their homeport, and yet the island has no harbor, no safea
Isles of spice and palm . ICE AND PALM of rock, but when sailing to the eastward onemay catch ghmpses of red-roofed houses anda tiny church nesthng amid the greenery ofits lofty hills and valleys. Strangely enough,most of the Saban men are sailors and arefamed as seamen on all the seven seas, as theyhave been since the days when doughty VanTrompe and sturdy Van Home, with broomsat their mastheads, swept the oceans clean. Stranger still, throughout the Caribbeanone sees trim sloops and schooners with Sabapainted across their counters as their homeport, and yet the island has no harbor, no safeanchorage and no good landing place. To reach Saba one must voyage by sloopor schooner from St. Kitts or one of the largerislands, and despite the discomforts of thepassage the trip is well repaid by a visit tothis unique island so far out of the beatentrack. The passengers disembark or goaboard, as the Sabans say, upon a steep slopeof rock and shingle on the southern shore ofthe island. Here, close to the water, stands 16. The Great Cone of Saba Rising from the Sea
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