292 WANDERINGS IN 



FOURTH exactly the same as the metallic cuckoo in 



JOURNEY. * 



Wilson's " Ornithology." They told me it is 



a migratory bird in Martinico. It probably 

 repairs to this island after its departure from 

 the United States. 



At a little distance from Martinico, the cele- 

 brated Diamond Rock rises in insulated majesty 

 out of the sea. It was fortified during the last 

 war with France, and bravely defended by an 

 English captain. 



st.Lucie. In a few hours from Martinico, you are at St. 

 Lucie, whose rough and towering mountains fill 

 you with sublime ideas, as you approach its rocky 



Castries, shore. The town Castries is quite embayed. It 

 was literally blown to pieces by the fatal hurri- 

 cane, in which the unfortunate governor and his 

 lady lost their lives. Its present forlorn and 

 gloomy appearance, and the grass which is grown 

 up in the streets, too plainly show that its hour 

 of joy is passed away ; and that it is in mourning, 

 as it were, with the rest of the British West 

 Indies. 



From St. Lucie, I proceeded to Barbadoes in 

 quest of a conveyance to the island of Trinidad. 



Barbadoes. Near Bridge-town, the capital of Barbadoes, I 

 saw the metallic cuckoo, already alluded to. 



Barbadoes is no longer the merry island it was 

 when I visited it some years ago : 



" Infelix habitnm, temporis hujus habet. 1 ' 



