. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). 10 Isles in Summer Seas ly divided as to color. Most of them appearedfriendly, openly looking us over without em-barrassment. Over the route we took, the distance to was a long twelve miles. The way ledout along a winding road, bordered by high walls,white as chalk. These walls were fringed withvivid masses of flowering vines and brilliant Eng-lish heath. In the low places oleanders in fullbloom grew to a height of twenty feet. Palmtrees, some towering above the aged cedars on thenear hills, others wind-struck and scrubby, over-looked th
. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). 10 Isles in Summer Seas ly divided as to color. Most of them appearedfriendly, openly looking us over without em-barrassment. Over the route we took, the distance to was a long twelve miles. The way ledout along a winding road, bordered by high walls,white as chalk. These walls were fringed withvivid masses of flowering vines and brilliant Eng-lish heath. In the low places oleanders in fullbloom grew to a height of twenty feet. Palmtrees, some towering above the aged cedars on thenear hills, others wind-struck and scrubby, over-looked the ribbon of white roadway. Now andthen we passed a banana plantation or a potatopatch. There were several deep cuts through thecoral rocks, and in these the road narrowed to asingle track. Because of the many deep sea inden-tations, the course of our route, which lay alongthe west shore, was crooked and CHAPTER II OR descriptive detail ofpoints of interest wedrew upon all sources ofinformation, but espe-cially did we refer tothe driver. This fellows knowledge was likea spring bubbling over in effervescing abun-dance. He was a burly black, coarse offeature and supremely happy in the con-sciousness of carrying a double load. The one hehad accimiulated at certain well known ports ofcall in Hamilton caused him to grin perpetuallyand expressively in the early stages of the tripnorthward. The luggage of his fares, piled highon either side of him, interfered a little with his II 12 Isles in Summer Seas efforts at conversation; but despite these obstacleshe singled out the Artist as most likely to provean interested listener and from time to timebreathed back into the stage much history of theIslands and a strong odor of rum. He was a seductively happy black man, and helaughed loudly and hoarsely at everything andnothing, seeming particularly to find an especialpleasure in flogging the near
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