2 3 o SUNSHINE AND SPORT IN 



had only two days of rain (one at Port Antonio, 

 which should not count) and not one of uncomfort- 

 able heat. In the way of amusement for those 

 whose one absorbing recreation is not the quest of 

 health, there is riding and driving and bathing and 

 boating alone to fill a year. Not in all the oceans 

 is there such another island of roads, and England 

 herself, which thinks something of roads, has none 

 finer than her sons have made in that far outpost in 

 the sunset. Americans, fresh from the neighbouring 

 island of Cuba, have told me how struck they were 

 by the contrast. In the remote inland districts the 

 visitor may find better roads, little used and well 

 kept up, than within a mile of Santiago or Havana. 

 Only the cross drains are just at first a source of 

 annoyance to those unaccustomed to drive over 

 such obstacles, but habit soon makes them neglig- 

 ible. For the more energetic horseman there is 

 always a warm welcome on the polo-ground at the 

 weekly meeting, nor is the lazier spectator excluded. 

 There are, in the fall of the year, bald-pates and 

 other native pigeons to test the markmanship of 

 those who fancy themselves as game shots. There 

 is fishing in both fresh and salt. Of the sea-fishing 

 something has been said. Sport in the rivers takes 

 a little finding out, but there are at any rate three 

 mullet which local anglers hold in high esteem. Of 

 these the finest is the calipeva, and Mr Bertram 

 told me that he had watched these over the side of 

 his canoe in the Milk River browsing on the green 

 weed on the bed of the river and standing on their 

 heads, so that only the great tails were visible 

 waving in the clear water. The hog-nosed mullet, 

 another fine species, is also caught on rare occasions 



