298 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



THE BIRTH-PLACE OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. 



FORT DE FRANCE. — THE PARK. — TAMARINDS AND MANGOS. — 

 STATUE OF JOSEPHINE. — THE TROIS PITOXS. — HISTORIC HILLS. 

 — CORONATION. — INSCRIPTION. — AN EARTHQUAKE. — TER- 

 ROR. — PARENTS OF JOSEPHINE. — HER GRANDMOTHER. — 

 ALEXANDER DE BEAUHARNAIS. — A VALUABLE DOCUMENT. — 

 MARRIAGE REGISTER OF JOSEPHINE'S PARENTS. — BUNGLING 

 BIOGRAPHERS. — MUSTY MEMOIRS. — FORT ROYAL BAY. — THE 

 PASSAGE-BOAT "JOHN." — TROIS ILETS. — THE BOULANGER. — 

 A FESTIVE FATHER. — A DINNER IN JEOPARDY. — A LOW 

 COUCH. — A HIGH BILL. — CHURCH IN WHICH JOSEPHINE WAS 

 BAPTIZED. — A TABLET TO HER MOTHER'S MEMORY. — LA 

 PAGERIE, BIRTH-PLACE OF JOSEPHINE. — THE HURRICANE. — 

 THE ROOF THAT SHELTERED AN EMPRESS. — GROUND HER 

 FEET HAD PRESSED. — YOUTH OF JOSEPHINE. — ANOTHER 

 SHOCK. — THE NEGRO BARRACKS. — THE EMPRESS' BATH. — 

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO ! — THE SIBYL. — THE HUMMING- 

 BIRD. — IN PERIL FROM A SERPENT. — A PEACEFUL SCENE. — 

 A RUDE AWAKENING. — THE RIVER COMES DOWN. — EARTH- 

 QUAKE AGAIN. — RAGS AND MELANCHOLY. 



A LITTLE steamer runs between St. Pierre and 

 Fort de France, the seat of government of the 

 island, coasting the shore, past a most interesting 

 landscape twenty miles, the banks high and precipi- 

 tous, exhibiting many different strata, and affording to 

 a geologist a glimpse of the manner in which the 

 island was formed. Huge rounded hills come down 

 to the sea, where they are abruptly cut down, looking 



