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 . intains a close touch upon the situation, fora warship of his Majestys navy, like a big stick thatspeaks softly, drops into the harbor at unexpectedintervals, and remains long enough to have it known byall concerned that the strong arm of England is behindthe Governor and his associates, and that any attemptedrevolution will be promptly quelled. A better policy thanmaintaining standing armies, perhaps, and certainly
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 . intains a close touch upon the situation, fora warship of his Majestys navy, like a big stick thatspeaks softly, drops into the harbor at unexpectedintervals, and remains long enough to have it known byall concerned that the strong arm of England is behindthe Governor and his associates, and that any attemptedrevolution will be promptly quelled. A better policy thanmaintaining standing armies, perhaps, and certainly acheaper one. We found none of the Saint Pierre washouts aboutBarbados. The whole island is a coral rock—a nubbin ofthe sea. One thing for which the natives are extremely thankfulis that their island is not subject to earthquakes. There isnothing volcanic about it. Once in remote eons, a bunchof polyps got together along the ocean bed and formed acolony. They kept on grouping and dying together untilout of the depths they had reared a mountain—and this\rith their own bodies. Then they turned it over to is the way Barbados happened. It is nothing but a mass. WORKING IN sugar-cane;^ BARBADOS. THi: iSIvAND O^ BARBADOS. 95 of wriggling sea animals petrified. But the busy littlefellows builded well, and out of their conglomerate manhas been able to rear great structures, for coral rock isquarried for building purposes, and it makes the land pro-ductive, since the minute particles of rock which constitutetillable soil are remarkable for their fertility. Not onlydid the polyps provide the splendid highways of the island,but in Bridgetown many of the sidewalks and steps leadingto private residences are hewn from virgin rock. On theoutskirts of the city visitors are shown a huge lion rampant,typical of British authority, carved out of a coral boulder. At the end of our drive, during which we saw the cuttingof sugar-cane on several nearby plantations, we werebrought to t
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