. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). the cliffs. These rocks shelter the bay and while,on the inside, the water was tranquil there was afoaming surf out against the opposing walls. Itwas a lonely, majestic scene. For a long time welay on the slope wrapped in the deep and age-old Beautiful Bermuda 191 mystery, nowhere so impenetrable as where seasforever war against the land. We were on the military reservation and pres-ently followed the straggling roads back to theairy barracks of the Royal Artillery. Fartheralong, we passed the parade ground and, later,the military church. We climbe


. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). the cliffs. These rocks shelter the bay and while,on the inside, the water was tranquil there was afoaming surf out against the opposing walls. Itwas a lonely, majestic scene. For a long time welay on the slope wrapped in the deep and age-old Beautiful Bermuda 191 mystery, nowhere so impenetrable as where seasforever war against the land. We were on the military reservation and pres-ently followed the straggling roads back to theairy barracks of the Royal Artillery. Fartheralong, we passed the parade ground and, later,the military church. We climbed the slope toFort Victoria, resting at the water catches calledthe Naval Tanks. This is the traditional landingplace of Captain Ords CHAPTER X T is a matter of record in my notes that atthis particular stage of our trip its biggestsurprise was suddenly sprung upon me. Atthe noon hour I was idly smoking in frontof the Inn, listening to a knot of darkiesseated aroimd the flagstaff chatting andjoking with one another on the performanceat the Cakewalk the night before. One of thegroup was the attendant who had encounteredthe sailors fist in the melee. He was explainingthe matter at length. I was laughing at the ex-planation when the Artist walked up to take the stage in an hour for looked him over in stupid wrong? I managed to bltu^t out. 192 Beautiful Bermuda 193 Wrong? Theres nothing wrong. We—youand I—are simply going to experience a changeof scene. Hamilton, I am told, is extremely inter-esting, and the neighboring islands are hA\ ofexcellent sketch material. There isnt anythingto prevent our coming back here if we was still looking at on, he said peevishly, we w


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