. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . distinctive intona-tion. Always the irrepressible spirit of the black rises serenelyabove all the vicissitudes of life. A black woman fromArakaka was sentenced to a month in jail. Upon her returnshe was welcomed by a crowd of friends, all eager to hearsomething of that mysterious jail, to which none of themwere sure they might not some day go. To their questionsHow was it? how was it? the heroine of the occasion GEORGETCNYN. II9 replied with great dignity, Me chile, dey see I was a
. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . distinctive intona-tion. Always the irrepressible spirit of the black rises serenelyabove all the vicissitudes of life. A black woman fromArakaka was sentenced to a month in jail. Upon her returnshe was welcomed by a crowd of friends, all eager to hearsomething of that mysterious jail, to which none of themwere sure they might not some day go. To their questionsHow was it? how was it? the heroine of the occasion GEORGETCNYN. II9 replied with great dignity, Me chile, dey see I was a ladyan dey didn give me de same work as de other , on a trip down the river, the same woman, meetingthe magistrate who had sentenced her, proudly remarked,Now I travel by meself her only previous experience intravelling having been under the escort of the police! Many of the blacks have far advanced cases of elephan-tiasis. In a five minutes walk one will see a half dozenexamples of this deadly disease; but it takes more than ele-phantiasis or jail to sadden the volatile spirits of the negro!. Fig. 60. The Georgetown Sea-wall. Cosmopolitan as is the street pageant of Georgetown, it is,however, not so much so as that of Port of Spain. The cooliesare even more numerous there than here, and in addition tothe same sort of English and negro life, there is also anAmerican, Spanish and French element. One hears on allsides the pretty French patois, and the musical Spanish of theSouth American is a constant delight. This large Spanishand French population make Port of Spain a decidedlyCatholic city, and priests and nuns in unfamiliar garbs arealways a part of the picture. 120 OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS. It is very hard for us Northerners to realize that the courseof a tropical day is much the same the year around. Here isa Georgetown day as we found it in February. At is still dark and the only sound is an occasional raucouscrow from chanticleer. Soon a subd
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