28o CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



SOME SUMMER DAYS IN MARTINIQUE. 



from Crusoe's island, north. frowning cliffs. golden 

 sands. birth of a rainbow. st. pierre. the volcano. 



our consul. "old farmer's almanack," good for 

 any latitude. french breakfasts. "long toms." 

 the widow and her weed. patois. costumes. good 

 claret. poor calico. market-women and washer- 

 women. gaudy garments. profusion of ornaments. 



jardin des plantes. the shrine and the traveler's 

 tree. creole dueling-ground. palm avenues. the 

 cascade. sago and areca palms. the lake. 

 land-snails. lizards. tarantulas. the lance-head 

 snake. venomous and vengeful. the mountain region. 



hot springs. an extinct volcano. a holy city. 

 sabbath in the country. warned of snakes. have 

 alligator boots. the humble shrine. a shriek. 

 narrow escape. the crafty serpent. 



UP from Tobago, the island of Crusoe's adventures, 

 I sailed, one week in June, for Barbados. Ten 

 weeks of camp-life in that historic island had brought 

 me rich returns, in rare birds and pictures of interest- 

 ing scenes. The captain of a Nova Scotia schooner 

 gave me passage from Barbados to the Isle of Marti- 

 nique, good captain Rudolph, who navigated his vessel 

 so skillfully that we sighted the mountains of Marti- 

 nique on the morning of the second day ; the same 

 mountains I had first looked upon eighteen months 

 previously coming down from the north. 



