The Isles of summer; or, Nassau and the Bahamas .. . rocal Welcomes. ... p. 349 ILLUSTRATIONS. WOOD ENGRAVINGS. 1. Frontispiece—View from high ground back of Nassau. 2. Map. pp. 12-13. 3. Screw Steamer City of Savannah, pp. 10-17.~4. Glass Window at Harbour Island, pp. 22-33. 5. Fort Fincastle. pp. 50-51. 6. View in Grants Town. pp. 56-57. ~~ 7. View from Fort Fincastle. pp. 64-65. 8. The Royal Victoria Hotel, pp. 72-73. 9. The Cciba or Silk Cotton Tree. pp. 90-91. — 10. Shore View west of Nassau, pp. 112-113. — 11. Nassau from Ilog Island, pp. 160-161. 12. George Street and the Government Hou
The Isles of summer; or, Nassau and the Bahamas .. . rocal Welcomes. ... p. 349 ILLUSTRATIONS. WOOD ENGRAVINGS. 1. Frontispiece—View from high ground back of Nassau. 2. Map. pp. 12-13. 3. Screw Steamer City of Savannah, pp. 10-17.~4. Glass Window at Harbour Island, pp. 22-33. 5. Fort Fincastle. pp. 50-51. 6. View in Grants Town. pp. 56-57. ~~ 7. View from Fort Fincastle. pp. 64-65. 8. The Royal Victoria Hotel, pp. 72-73. 9. The Cciba or Silk Cotton Tree. pp. 90-91. — 10. Shore View west of Nassau, pp. 112-113. — 11. Nassau from Ilog Island, pp. 160-161. 12. George Street and the Government House, pp. 288-289. 13. A Private Residence in Nassau, pp. Bay Street, west end of Nassau, pp. 312-313. LITIlOGRAPnS. 15. Bahama Reptiles, pp. 130-131. 16. Sponges, pp. 140-141. ^- ^^o*- hip. 216-217 18. Flexible Corals. 1 19. Echinodcnns. pp. 224-225. 20. Fishes, pp. 232-233. 21. Bahama Pishes, pp. 2,39-2;i3. 22. Squid. Octopus, pp. :5. Bahama Shells. 24. 25. Flamingo, pp. Dolphins, pp. 344-345, ? pp. CHAPTER I. Man and the Migratory Birds. An Ocean Voyage in 3Iid-winter. AWasted Snow Storm. A Model Steamer. Savannah. A Pleasant run be-ticeen the Sea-Islands and the Mainland. The Cumberland Islands. Dun-genness. St. Mary. Fernandina and its Amelia Beach. Arrival at Jack-sonville. Crossing the Gulf Stream. Landing at Nassau. The sails were filled, and fair the light winds blew,As pleased to waft him from liis native land.—Byron. Natures special favorites are the birds. With the sjDced ofthe wind, and a flight almost as noiseless, they ever follow Sum-mer wliere she leads, bask in her sunlight, and repose in hergrateful shadows. As Winter, snow-clad and frozen, advancesor retreats, they folloAV in his footsteps, and sport in the forests ofverdure, and in the fields and bowers of bloom, that soon clothehis track of desolation with wondrous beauty. What nature denied, man has acquired for himself—a to thai; of the b
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