Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months . g upon thestrangeness of humanity, we may leave Nevis toits sempiternal calm. X ANTIGUA AND ITS ANNALS MONTSERRAT AND ITS LIME JUICE FACTORY PRATING FOR RAIN A TALE OF ABDUCTION, JEALOUSY, AND DEATH INDIAN WARNER TURTLE SOUP HERE AND IN LONDON The nisrht air on the Caribbean Sea was mild andrefreshing. When the passengers had retired, andall lights were out which the rules required, I usedto come out from my stateroom, and spreading asteamer chair astern on the hurricane deck, reclineand gaze for hours at the heavens, and at the dark
Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months . g upon thestrangeness of humanity, we may leave Nevis toits sempiternal calm. X ANTIGUA AND ITS ANNALS MONTSERRAT AND ITS LIME JUICE FACTORY PRATING FOR RAIN A TALE OF ABDUCTION, JEALOUSY, AND DEATH INDIAN WARNER TURTLE SOUP HERE AND IN LONDON The nisrht air on the Caribbean Sea was mild andrefreshing. When the passengers had retired, andall lights were out which the rules required, I usedto come out from my stateroom, and spreading asteamer chair astern on the hurricane deck, reclineand gaze for hours at the heavens, and at the darkmasses of black mountain land along which wecoasted. The West Indian night is beautiful, thesky a deep violet, the atmosphere clear, and whilemultitudes of stars are visible to the naked eye, thelarger planets shine with a refulgence unknown inthe temperate zone. In such a night we rounded Nevis and passedRedonda, which seemed little more than a black rock,and then sailed by the lofty crags of is a port of call for trading vessels, which 76. ANTIGUA AND ITS ANNALS It receive large quantities of the lime juice manufact-ured here for export to the United States and else-where. The trees are planted closely in the orchardsin order to prevent vegetation beneath from exhaust-ing the soil. They begin to bear after three yearsand continue to yield well for half a dozen or moreyears. The limes are gathered as they fall to theground by children and squeezed between sugarrollers. The juice is then boiled till it is thick, and ifintended for shipment is run into hogsheads of fiftygallons. The juice is used as an anti-scorbutic andlargely for making citric acid. It is made at otherislands, notably at Dominica; but the best qualityof juice known to commerce is made on industry was originally established by Quakers,and it has been of far more use to mankind (and Iam happy to say, of equal profit to the capitalists)than the making of rum which employs so many of
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