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and with the Brilliant Waters. The Shores Paved with Shells Wonderful In Form 

 and Color. The Conch p. 225 



Chap. XIV.— Moonlight and Starlight in the Bahamas. New Heavens. The Crescent 

 and the Cross. The Starry Cross of Southern Skies. Midnight Watchings, with their 

 Results p. 241 



Chap. XV.— The Coral Isles the- Home of Beautiful Birds. Their Scarcity io Nassau and 

 its Causes. The Necessity of Legal Enactments to Protect the Birds. The Flamingo. 

 The Bahama Mocking Bird. A Brief Account of the Visitant and Resident Birds of 

 the Bahamas, p. 247 



Chap. XVI.— The Influence of the British Court and Aristrocracy upon the People of 

 Nassau. The Landing of Prince Alfred upon the Island of New Providence. Nassau 

 and the British Government During the Late War of the Rebellion. Blockade Run- 

 ning. Nassau Practically a Confederate Port. International Laws Construed and 

 Enforced so as to Greatly Damage the United States. Fortunes Rapidly Made, Squan- 

 dered and Lost. Wild Excitement and Great Dissipation. Great Increase of Disease 

 and Crime in Nassau . p. 265 



Chap. XVII.— The Bahama Constitution. Opening of the Colonial Legislature. Imposing 

 Ceremonies. The Negroes Made Happy. The Governor and his Military Guard of 

 Honor. "Parliament " Prorogued. Martial Music and Booming Cannon. Engrossed 

 Bills Approved and Signed. Small Annual Crops of New Laws. No Color Line in the 

 House of Assembly. Wrecks and Wrecking in the Bahamas. Salvors and Salvage. 

 Bahama Hurricanes p. 275 



Chap. XVTII.— The Social Life of Nassau. Society Pervaded by Natural Chrystalizing 

 Laws. English Forms and Titles well Rooted. Citizens of the Great Republic Am- 

 bitious to Mix and Mingle in High-toned Society. Social Gayeties— Picnics and Balls, 

 Wine and Waltzing, the "Sound of Revelry at Night." Highways Made and Repaired 

 to Accomodate the Victims of a too Generous Hospitality. A Governor who Appre- 

 ciates the Dance, and does not Underestimate the Value of His Titles. A Doctor of 

 Divinity Made Happy. In What Places Hospitality is Indigenous. . . p. 28V 



Chap, XIX.— The First Great Voyage of Columbus. He Solves the Dark Problem of the 

 Ages. His Landfall. The Whole Group Made Forever Memorable. The Spirits of 

 Columbus and Black Deard Tudelibly Impressed Upon the Islands. Eminently Good 

 and Bad Men Not Dead When They Die. The Natives As Columbus Found and De- 

 scribed Them. The West India Islands Occupied by Substantially One People. The 

 Caribs. The Search Among the Bahamas for the Fountain of Youth. . p. 299 



Chap. XX.— Spanish Perfidy and Cruelty. The Natives by Force and Fraud are Cairied 

 to Hispaniola and Perish in its Mines. The Islands without Inhabitants. An English 

 Captain Discovers New Providence. George III of England makes a Royal Grant of 

 the Bahamas to Sis Proprietors. Pirates Infest the Islands. Black Beard. He Es- 

 tablishes Himself Upon New Providence. The Early Governors. Summary Punish- 

 ment Inflicted by the Spaniards, and by the French and Spaniards. Nassau Built and 



