Haiti ; its dawn of progress after years in a night of revolution . dart outof the foam and skim, sometimes a few feet,often many yards. At night I took the same 11 Haiti: Its Dazcn of Progress post and the phosphorescent stars of the Bfshone verv orpeen asrainst the vellow constella-tions above. By the third day ever-increasing quantitiesof sargasso weed appeared and floated rn from their beds along tropical coiithese bits of weed act as the shelter for multi-farious forms of aquatic life which live as longas the weed lives and die when it finally so. although no sign of bir
Haiti ; its dawn of progress after years in a night of revolution . dart outof the foam and skim, sometimes a few feet,often many yards. At night I took the same 11 Haiti: Its Dazcn of Progress post and the phosphorescent stars of the Bfshone verv orpeen asrainst the vellow constella-tions above. By the third day ever-increasing quantitiesof sargasso weed appeared and floated rn from their beds along tropical coiithese bits of weed act as the shelter for multi-farious forms of aquatic life which live as longas the weed lives and die when it finally so. although no sign of bird or other lifeappeared above the water surface, we were sur-rounded every moment by thousands of indi-viduals of dozens of specie- Our ship was the Advance of the Amer-ican government-controlled Panama R. Company, which operates the serv-ice between New York, Haiti and Panama,Two steamers run to Panama via Port-au-Prince. Haiti, three are exclusively for Haitianports, while the others do not stop at Haitien route to Panama. Beside the Panama line 12. SIFTING COFFEE ALONG A PRINCIPAL STREET Sargasso and Flying Fish there is the Dutch line of boats which runsfrom New York to Haiti on regular sailings,but aside from these two there are no otherlines which regularly run ships to Haiti. Andso the quickest way of travelling from Haitito another of the West Indies is via south, the first land appeared onthe fourth day, when the lighthouse of SanSalvador, re-named Watlings Island by theBritish, showed the northern pointi of landlong before the rest of the flat surface wasvisible. Bird Rock, the Fortune Islands andCastle Island were passed during the nexttwelve hours, and finally the high mountainsof eastern Cuba were twenty miles off ourstarboard. Before these were out of sight,the peak of Mole St. Nicholas, Haiti, aroseon the port bow. But we were by no meansyet at Port-au-Prince, our destination, for itis a seven-hour sail from this point to the har-bor in
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