25th February, A. D. 1904. 



I. E C T U R E 



ILLUSTRATED BY STEIIEOPTICON 

 BY 



EDWARD W. BREED. 



Theme: — A Trip to Jamaica. 



Will you go with me in imagination to a land of perpetual 

 summer, to the tropical island of Jamaica, where the tlier- 

 mometer registers eighty degrees every day in the year? To 

 accomplish this trip, we will take one of the United Fruit 

 Company's steamers and prepare ourselves for a five days' 

 voyage. Our sail, after turning Cape Cod, lies in a direct 

 southern course of 1,600 miles, and for the first three days 

 we shall be out of sight of land, and only a few seagulls and 

 a chance vessel will occasionally greet our eyes. If we are 

 sea-sick, and the chances are that we will be, our time will 

 be fully occupied, but after that we will have a good opportunity 

 to make acquaintances and perhaps find those who will become 

 our traveling companions during the entire trip. On the fourth 

 day we will find that the thermometer has reached seventy 

 degrees and that the ocean begins to have that beautiful blue, 

 which indicates that we are approaching the tropics. 



Our first land will now be in sight, Watlin's Island or San 

 Salvador, the next we will see Bird Rock, and then Cape Maysi. 

 If the night is clear it will be our privilege to see the southern 

 cross shining magnificently in the heavens as we pass between 

 Cuba and Porto Rico. 



It is time now to be donning our thinnest apparel, for we 

 are in the tropics, and the heat will be felt by us, as we have 

 just come from the frozen north. 



