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Antilles, and England. The principal line is the English 

 Royal Mail Company, which maintains a comfortable 

 service between England and the Caribbean ports, ex- 

 cepting those belonging to Spain, which are avoided on 

 account of sanitation. These steamers are patronized 

 largely by English tourists who come out to see the 

 colonies. The arrival of the semimonthly packet from Eng- 

 land, bringing mail, parcels, English mutton, butter, and a 

 thousand and one necessaries, which every Englishman 

 in Jamaica awaits from home, is the most important event 

 upon the island. The principal service to the United 

 States is maintained by the Atlas Line from New York and 

 the Boston Fruit Company's steamers from Boston, New 

 York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. 



