ptcy--The Hall of Assembly--Sir Charles Pearson--Society
in Bridgetown--A morning drive--Church of St. John's--Sir
Graham Briggs--An old planter's palace--The Chief Justice of
Barbadoes 88

CHAPTER X.

Leeward and Windward Islands--The Caribs of Dominica--Visit of
Pere Labat--St. Lucia--The Pitons--The harbour at Castries--Intended
coaling station--Visit to the administrator--The old
fort and barracks--Conversation with an American--Constitution
of Dominica--Land at Roseau 113

CHAPTER XI.

Curiosities in Dominica--Nights in the tropics--English and Catholic
churches--The market place at Roseau--Fishing extraordinary--A
storm--Dominican boatmen--Morning walks--Effects of the
Leeward Islands Confederation--An estate cultivated as it ought
to be--A mountain ride--Leave the island--Reflections 132

CHAPTER XII.

The Darien canal--Jamaican mail packet--Captain W.--Retrospect
of Jamaican history--Waterspout at sea--Hayti--Jacmel--A
walk through the town--A Jamaican planter--First sight of the
Blue Mountains--Port Royal--Kingston--The Colonial Secretary--Gordon
riots--Changes in the Jamaican constitution 155

CHAPTER XIII.

The English mails--Irish agitation--Two kinds of colonies--Indian
administration--How far applicable in the West Indies--Land at
Kingston--Government House--Dinner party--Interesting
officer--Majuba Hill--Mountain station--Kingston
curiosities--Tobacco--Valley in the Blue Mountains 180

CHAPTER XIV.

Visit to Port Royal--Dockyard--Town--Church--Fort Augusta--The
eyrie in the mountains--Ride to Newcastle--Society in
Jamaica--Religious bodies--Liberty and authority 195

CHAPTER XV.

The Church of England in Jamaica--Drive to Castleton--Botanical
Gardens--Picnic by the river--Black women--Ball at Government
House--Mandeville--Miss Roy--Country society--Manners--American
visitors--A Moravian missionary--The modern
Radical creed 208

CHAPTER XVI.

Jamaican hospitality--Cherry Garden--George William Gordon--The
Gordon riots--Governor Eyre--A dispute and its consequences--Jamaican
country-house society--Modern speculation--A
Sp