The fair land of Central America . jeweller from Berlin, with his high collar, whointended to open a branch establishment inHavana, was quite forgotten! The beautifullady, whose two little daughters had amused usthroughout the voyage and who were going tojoin their papa—a planter on some tropicalisland adorned with an old Spanish name—^hadfaded away into the past! They had all gone, disappeared into the dis-tance like smoke, like the smoke of the steamerswhich were now carrying them away over thehorizon ! Human life is but the prelude to the dance ofdeath. Trinidad and Jamaica are both struggl
The fair land of Central America . jeweller from Berlin, with his high collar, whointended to open a branch establishment inHavana, was quite forgotten! The beautifullady, whose two little daughters had amused usthroughout the voyage and who were going tojoin their papa—a planter on some tropicalisland adorned with an old Spanish name—^hadfaded away into the past! They had all gone, disappeared into the dis-tance like smoke, like the smoke of the steamerswhich were now carrying them away over thehorizon ! Human life is but the prelude to the dance ofdeath. Trinidad and Jamaica are both struggling toobtain the honour of supplying England with theirown particular commodities. Trinidad is goingto be the Hong Kong of South America. Every-one makes the same remark in speaking of thisislands position at the mouth of the wide may be. But one thing is certain, and thatis that the whole of Venezuela already goes toTrinidad to do its marketing. Its enormous storessell everything under the sun, from hair-wash 44. & • Ix) n ^ W w =?! -^ > Q Di <! ^ K Td The Antilles and Venezuela to dye the senoritas hair a becoming shade ofred, to iron bridges and railway-engines. Ina certain shop nearly as big as the Louvreor the Bon Marchi, I paid one dollar for astraw hat of the very best quality j it wouldprobably have cost me double that price inParis. This result is due to the Scotch who have mon-opolized the import trade, while the export trade,represented by plantations of cacao trees, stillremains in the hands of many old French familieswho were driven from San Domingo by the Revo-lution. For the foreigner, the charm of Trinidadneither lies in its hardware stores nor in itsplantations of cacao trees, but in the wonderfuland astonishing tropical vegetation which stillcovers three-fourths of the island with an immense,uncultivated forest. No doubt the French Antillespossess quite as luxuriant forests, but Trinidadhas one advantage in that carriage-roads runthrou
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