CONTENTS. 



CHAP. I.— Man and the Migratory Birds. An Ocean Voyage in Mid-Winter. A Wasted 

 Snowstorm. A Model Steamer. Savannah. The Route between the Sea-Islands and 

 the Mainland. The Cumberland Islands. Ruins of Dunpienness. St. Mary's. Fer- 

 nandina. Amelia Beach. Arrival at Jacksonville. Crossing the Gulf Stream. Arrival 

 at Nassau p. 13 



Chap. II.— .\ Break-water of Islands, Rocks, Reefs and Banks over 2,000 miles long. The 

 Bahama Archipelago. The Gulfs, Sounds and Ship Channels that penetrate and sur- 

 round the group. Hidden Chapters of the Earth's Autobiography Disrovered hy Mod- 

 ern Scientists. Monuments of Buried Lands. Ocean Thoroughfares. TheBermudas — 

 their Gradual Subsidence p. 31 



Chap. Ill —New Providence. Killarney and Cunningham Lakes. Caves and Cave Earth. 

 The Mermaid's Pool. Nassau— its Streets. Public and Private Buildings, and Poi<ula- 

 tion. The Poor but Happy Necroes. Fort Fincasile; its Marine Signals. Grant's 

 Town and other Suburlian Villngos. Fort Charlotte; its Subterranean Hooms and 

 Charming Outlook. Lunching at the Expense of the British Qneen The Removal of 

 the Old Barracks. Foit Montague. A Luxuriant Growth of Titles. The Harbor and 

 Barof Nassau. The Breakers. Shells and Shell work. Nassau's PublicLibrary. p. 43 



Chap. IV.— The Royal Victoria Hotel. Scenes daily witnessed in Its Court. Sacred 

 Songs of the Negroes p. 69 



Chap. V.— Flora of the Isles of Summer. Fertilizing Air. Lar^e Trees on the top of 

 Stone Walls and in Limestone QimiTies. Trees that will not Die and cannot be killed. 

 Trees Wilhin Trees. The Monkey Tamarind, the Wild Fig. and the Ceil)a or Silk 

 Cotton Trees. Thompson's F' lly. Palm Trees— the Cocoanut, the African, the Cab- 

 bage and the Palmetto. The India Rubber Tree. The Singing Tree. Tamarind 

 Trees, and Trees Valuable for Timber, for Dyes, for their Spicy Bark, and for .Medic- 

 inal Purposes. The Natural more 'vVonderful than the Superiiaiural. . . p. 79 



Chap. VI.— Fruits and Flowers of the Bahamas. Fruits In Bills of Fare. The Orange, 

 the Pine Apple, the Sapodilla, the Cocoanut. the Hog Plum, ihi; shuddock, and the 

 Forbidden Fruit. Other B.ihama Fruits. Flowering Trees, Shrubs and Vines, p. i)J 



Chap. VII.— Soothing, Languid .-\ir; its Effects. Ambition Dies. "Kk; Baham;>8 not in- 

 cluded in the I'rimal Curse. The Island (if Indolenci;. Sootlnd Sharks. Lazy air and 

 Lazy blood Putting Insect Plagues to Sleep. Mice and Men alike Affected. A large 



