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interesting old town with many of the 

 buildings with massive stone and brick 

 walls dating back to the Spanish pos- 

 session, and fewer of the usual little 

 board and bamboo-woven cabins. 



Our lodgings here were most beauti- 

 fully situated on a high bluff overlook- 

 ing the town with its background of 

 wooded hills, and the little semi- 

 circular bay with its circling arms of 

 land buried in luxuriant tropical 

 foliage. From the sea our Roman 

 villa-like lodgings loomed up very im- 

 posing, but, truly, distance lent en- 

 chantment. For, though the house 

 was large, the rooms airy and pleasant 

 and the situation most desirable, shift- 

 less housekeeping and monotonous fare 

 spoiled much of the charm. 



From Montego Bay we took the 

 steam cars across the western end of 

 the island to Kingston, stopping off for 



