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CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



The ground shook, walls cracked, and, in common 

 with every one else, I rushed into the street. There 

 was the entire populace crowded together in terror, 

 most of them wildly shrieking and gesticulating. The 

 shocks lasted but a few minutes, and then all went 

 calmly back to their houses. After this the sky was 

 as serene and blue, and the trees as quiet, as before, 



IRTHPLACE OF JOSEPHINE. 



and I finished my photographs of beautiful Josephine, 

 who had been an unmoved spectator of it all, without 

 interruption. 



The town of Fort de France is intimately connected 

 with scenes in the early life of Josephine, and of her 

 parents. In 1755, Joseph Gaspard de La Pagerie, 



