Under the Southern cross in South America . through the routine of the Customs, with a few con-genial friends I repaired to the justly famous Hotel Titchfield,a hostelry conducted on the American plan and which can favor-ably compare in cuisine, comfort, polite attendance, and prices withthose of much greater pretensions in America and Europe. Fromthe verandas and balconies of the Titchfield the visitor may enjoya view of some of the most beautiful scenes in the Tropics. Ihave visited many of the renowned haunts of both the Old andNew World and looked upon nature with enraptured eyes whenshe d


Under the Southern cross in South America . through the routine of the Customs, with a few con-genial friends I repaired to the justly famous Hotel Titchfield,a hostelry conducted on the American plan and which can favor-ably compare in cuisine, comfort, polite attendance, and prices withthose of much greater pretensions in America and Europe. Fromthe verandas and balconies of the Titchfield the visitor may enjoya view of some of the most beautiful scenes in the Tropics. Ihave visited many of the renowned haunts of both the Old andNew World and looked upon nature with enraptured eyes whenshe donned her fairest garments and flashed her rarest jewels inthe sunshine of Eastern lands, but never did I look upon her inmore dazzling array of gorgeous loveliness than from the verandasof the Titchfield Hotel in Port Antonio. A wealth of tropicalscenery lay before us, unrivalled in the rich coloring of tree andflower, perennially kept green by showers and sunshine. Here, inthe presence of ocean and mountain—those tw(5 grandest physical. HARBOR SCEXE, PfIRT ANTONIO


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