ing messages for Kingston and I tried to ascertain by telegram 

 how my friends in the Hope Gardens had fared and whether the 



already been made, was still feasible. This telegram, as I after- 

 wards learned, was delivered the following Saturday evening. 

 The telegraphic reply, to the effect that the friends in the Hope 

 Gardens were uninjured but more or less homeless, and that the 



projected trip to Cinchona was no longer to be thought of, I have 

 not received yet. However, on Monday, one week after the 

 memorable fourteenth, I started by rail in the direction of Kings- 

 ton, going on that day as far as Spanish Town, where the night 

 was spent and whence, with the aid of the next morning's light, 

 I proceeded to reconnoitre the stricken capital of the fair island. 

 The havoc wrought to the second largest city in the West Indies 



