298 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 THE BIRTH-PLACE OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE 



FORT DE FRANCE. THE PARK. TAMARINDS AND MANGOS. 

 STATUE OF JOSEPHINE. THE TROIS PITONS. HISTORIC HILLS. 

 CORONATION. INSCRIPTION. AN EARTHQUAKE. TER- 

 ROR. PARENTS OF JOSEPHINE. HER GRANDMOTHER. 

 ALEXANDER DE BEAUHARNAIS. A VALUABLE DOCUMENT. 

 MARRIAGE REGISTER OF JOSEPHINE'S PARENTS. BUNGLING 

 BIOGRAPHERS. MUSTY MEMOIRS. FORT ROYAL BAY. THE 

 PASSAGE-BOAT "JOHN." TROIS ILETS. THE BOULANGER. 

 A FESTIVE FATHER. A DINNER IN JEOPARDY. A LOW 

 COUCH. A HIGH BILL. CHURCH IN WHICH JOSEPHINE WAS 

 BAPTIZED. A TABLET TO HER MOTHER'S MEMORY. LA 

 PAGERIE, BIRTH-PLACE OF JOSEPHINE. THE HURRICANE. 

 THE ROOF THAT SHELTERED AN EMPRESS. GROUND HER 

 FEET HAD PRESSED. YOUTH OF JOSEPHINE. ANOTHER 

 SHOCK. THE NEGRO BARRACKS. THE EMPRESS' BATH. 

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO ! THE SIBYL. THE HUMMING- 

 BIRD. IN PERIL FROM A SERPENT. A PEACEFUL SCENE. 

 A RUDE AWAKENING. THE RIVER COMES DOWN. EARTH- 

 QUAKE AGAIN. RAGS AND MELANCHOLY. 



A LITTLE steamer runs between St. Pierre and 

 Fort de France, the seat of government of the 

 island, coasting the shore, past a most interesting 

 landscape twenty miles, the banks high and precipi- 

 tous, exhibiting many different strata, and affording to 

 a geologist a glimpse of the manner in which the 

 island was formed. Huge rounded hills come down 

 to the sea, where they are abruptly cut down, looking 



