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with fresh water and again strained. It is afterwards run into 
an extensive shallow tray, where the arrowroot quickly settles, 
and the water drains away. It is then collected and put on 
trays in a large airy shed. When dry the trays are taken down 
from the racks and the arrowroot is rammed into barrels with a 
hand pestle, which is the only means taken to bring it into a 
powdered state. Some of the rhizomes which I brought with 
me are now growing freely at Norwood. 
The chief industries of St. Vincent are arrowroot and sugar. 
It was at a small cottage here that I became possessed of a 
Carib stone implement. 
On leaving St. Vincent we passed a string of small islands, all 
of volcanic origin; these run very much north to south, and so 
make a fine breakwater to the Atlantic waves which are rolling 
in with the trade wind from the east. It is therefore so calm 
that one might imagine that they were taking a trip on a fine 
sunny day round the Isle of Wight. The front part of the deck 
is filled with negro families; they have no cabins or hammocks, 
but mass themselves together and sleep on deck—men, women 
and children. These poor people bring with them what pro- 
visions they want, consisting chiefly of a very light character, 
principally fruit. 
We now arrived off St. George, the chief town of Grenada; 
from the ship I think it is the finest piece of coast I have ever 
seen; the mountains are very richly covered with forest trees, 
and the small natural harbour is picturesque in the extreme. 
On a steep projecting arm of land on the left of the natural 
harbour is the fort; this arm of the land divides the town proper 
from the harbour, and communication is now carried on by a 
tunnel cut through the base of this rocky arm. About one mile 
from St. George are the Botanical Gardens, a prettily laid out 
and well-kept garden. There is a very fine double row of 
cabbage palms leading up-hill from the entrance, at the end of 
which there is a beautiful ‘traveller’s tree.’ The garden con- 
tains some very fine specimen palms, orchids, and economic 
and medicinal plants. I was pleased to find them all labelled, 
which is a great assistance. The gardens can be reached by 
road or by boat; the latter will take you across the harbour 
and land you within a few feet of the entrance. The landing 
stage is situated in a small mangrove swamp; it is very in- 
teresting to see the twisted and net-like masses of roots, and 
one can soon understand how these collect the floating vegetable 
matter and turn it into a decomposing mass of matter which is 
the chief cause of malarial fever. These roots are often covered 
with masses of small oysters, which are fairly palatable and are 
served as hors d’wuvre. 
Mr, Broadway, the curator, who kindly took us round the 
