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‘* They sailed, they sailed, then spoke the mate : 
This mad sea shows its teeth to-night ; 
He curls his lip, he lies in wait, 
With lifted teeth as if to bite. 
Brave Admiral, say but one good word— 
What shall we do when hope is gone ? 
The word leapt as a leaping sword— 
Sail on, sail on, sail on, and on.” 
Columbus gained a world and gave that world its greatest 
lesson—“ On and on.” When he returned to Spain the Queen 
asked him what kind of a country he had discovered. He took up 
a sheet of paper, crumpled it up, and said “Ya ma ka,” which 
means a land of mountains. 
The Spanish surrendered the island to the British in 1655, it 
having been under Spanish rule for 161 years. It is, as I said at 
the outset, a crown colony. The members of the Government are 
all Imperial appointments. The members of the Legislature are 
elected by the people. 
I went to Jamaica as Honorary Commissioner, representing 
Canada at the great International. Exhibition, held in Kingston, 
Jamaica, in 1891, leaving New York in the good steamer “ Hondo” 
on the r7th of January of that year. The voyage was delightful. 
One the second day out one began to feel like parting with sea 
wraps, and by the fourth day it was quite summer like, and gauzy 
garments were all that were required. The sight of the firmament 
in the tropics at sea is one of indescribable splendour. The “heavens 
are so beautifully blue and the stars so festally bright.” These stars 
are like moons, and have to be seen to give any idea of their glory ; 
they cannot be described. 
** The starry firmament on high, 
With all the blue ethereal sky, 
And spangled heavens a shining frame, 
Their great original proclaim.” 
I cannot trust myself to say all I felt when I first saw the 
Southern Cross, which was about midnight on the fifth day out, or 
of my surprise at the shoals of flying fish, like sea birds skimming 
the waves. We pass Hayti, that island of great fertility, and “ where 
every prospect pleases and only man is vile.” It is almost a con- 
tinual scene of turmoil and bloodshed. Then we have a peep at 
