With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions . - a few sullen walls. Habita-tions—there were none; debris overgrown with weeds oblit-erated the streets and absurd little sidewalks. Wherebreathed and moved the liveliest, gayest 30,000 of Marti-niques 200,000 souls—all was desolation. No, there wassomething left; for over by the hillside a dozen negroes wereclearing away the drift, and by excavating to a depth of live. MOUNTAIN VIlSW 01? ST. PI^RRE;. feet were brmg
With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions . - a few sullen walls. Habita-tions—there were none; debris overgrown with weeds oblit-erated the streets and absurd little sidewalks. Wherebreathed and moved the liveliest, gayest 30,000 of Marti-niques 200,000 souls—all was desolation. No, there wassomething left; for over by the hillside a dozen negroes wereclearing away the drift, and by excavating to a depth of live. MOUNTAIN VIlSW 01? ST. PI^RRE;. feet were brmging into view the flagstone pavement of Vic-tor Hugo Street, the principal thoroughfare of the buriedcity. It was a mighty small oasis in the desert. A thick growth of tropical bushes, succored by the fre-quent rains and the fertilizing qualities of the ash deposit,had risen over the ruins, extending in some places to aheight of eight or ten feet and making ones way through itunpleasant, especially to one who had read of the deadlyfer-de-lance—the snake which lurks in the forest and the j^ WITH spi:ake:r cannon through thp: tropics. bush of Martinique. But A/[ann, who joined me in a trampacross the ruins, was as sceptical on snakes as though theyhad been Congressional measures, and insisted by his ex-plorations in demonstrating that they really did not wanted to follow the unbeaten paths which carried usinto cellars and backyards, rivers and the remnants of cause-ways. Since I had climbed over the ruins of Johnstownimmediately a
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