The Isles of summer; or, Nassau and the Bahamas .. . of stone wallswhich enclose the private grounds of the jioople of Nassau, areto a large extent surmounted by the broken fragments of glassbottles, laid in mortar; the broken glass is strongly suggestiveof the convivial habits of Nassau in the earlier times. One wouldsuppose it extremely unwise to engraft the habits of the Englisharistocracy, who are accustomed to raise the damp and chilly fogswhich envelope them with the contents of the bottle, upon thecustoms of a people who live in an atmosphere of almost tropicalheat. But the leaders of f
The Isles of summer; or, Nassau and the Bahamas .. . of stone wallswhich enclose the private grounds of the jioople of Nassau, areto a large extent surmounted by the broken fragments of glassbottles, laid in mortar; the broken glass is strongly suggestiveof the convivial habits of Nassau in the earlier times. One wouldsuppose it extremely unwise to engraft the habits of the Englisharistocracy, who are accustomed to raise the damp and chilly fogswhich envelope them with the contents of the bottle, upon thecustoms of a people who live in an atmosphere of almost tropicalheat. But the leaders of fashion in Nassau arc not only extremelyloyal to their most excellent queen, but seem to aspire in everyway to mould their habits and conform their lives to Englishmodels, without any regard to the wide differences which exist inall the circumstances which surround them. We should antici-pate that, as a natural and necessary consequence, a rapid wastingof all the vital energies of mind and 1)ody, and a material short-ening of the term of human ^l P/nnt Ji f (l( n l \ NASSAU HOSPITALITY. 297 The pleasant and agreeable attentions which are shown by thelocal clergy of Nassau and some prominent church members toecclesiastics from abroad, who, by letter or otherwise, make them-selves known, may be inferred from the following extract froma short descriptive and highly eulogistic account of Nassau, com-municated to a Xew York religious paper by a clergyman. Hewrites under the date of March 25, 187G: The hospitality ofthe inhabitants is as warm and genial as their clime. The jiolitecordiality extended to non-residents makes them forget they arestrangers in a strange land. A burrowing animal from its littlehole in the ground is about as well qualified to describe a universewhich it has not seen, as is a Doctor of Divinity to accuratelyportray the hospitality of a place, because the doors of certaingood, pious and appreciative persons have always been flung wideopen at the approach
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