BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 231 
The women, as is usually the case, have tongues of their own 
and can use them vociferously on occasion. One often comes 
upon groups of them in the little roadside markets which seem 
to be quite a feature here. The country people for miles around 
came with their baskets of vegetables, fruits, eggs, and other 
commodities, to some center where they were met by others from 
St. John’s. Here the trafficking is greatly enjoyed apparently, 
and the people from the town trudge back with their purchases 
on their heads. 
The women are practically never bare-headed and usually 
have their heads swathed in thick turbans, often of gorgeous 
hues. We sometimes saw men and boys with thick caps, some 
of them having ear-flaps, working in the hot son. When even- 
ing comes, the women seem to want still more head covering 
and also wraps of various sorts. One favorite place for gossip- 
ing here, as in the Bible lands and times, is the well, which in 
this case is a cistern. Substitute old gasolene and kerosene 
eans for the graceful water jars of Bible pictures and we find 
no other alteration necessary to make the scenes the same. The 
weight of a five-gallon can full of water does not seem to con- 
cern them at all and they will stand and talk with no apparent 
consciousness of the burden. 
The main roads on the island are good and kept in very fair 
condition for automobile travel. Most of the officials and plant- 
ers have cars, but the common people either walk or ride on ridic- 
ulously small donkeys. Loads are either carried on the heads of 
pedestrians or on donkey carts. I saw few four-wheeled wagons 
of any kind, and the matter of transportation is usually diffi- 
eult. It is hard for the northerner to understand why the ordi- 
nary farm wagon or at least some sort of truck or dray has not 
come into general use either here or at Barbados. As before 
indicated, most of our provisions were brought to the Dockyard 
on the head of a girl in her teens. When the donkey cart came, 
which was twice a week, the load it carried was no more than 
could be transported by an ordinary push-cart at home. Of 
course heavy loads are conveyed to various points on the coast 
by sloops such as. we employed to bring our effects to English 
Harbor. 
Here, as at Barbados, the Police force is made up mainly 
