XIV CONTENTS. 
er’s Trials. — Coolie: Immigration. — The Negro, returning 
to Savagery. — A Self-appointed Physician. —Government 
House. — Trees of the Tropics. — Bread-Fruit and Cocoa- 
Palm. — First Experience with Bread-Fruit. — Its Appear- 
ance. — Taste. — History of its Introduction. — Abundance 
in St. Vincent. — The Palms, their Great Beauty and Util- 
ity.— Cocoa-Palm, Palmiste, Groo-groo and Gris-gris, Areca 
and Mountain Palms. — The Vine with Perforated Leaves. 
—The Indian Maiden . . . ~~ 1. ee ee o + 2 229 
CHAPTER XV. 
GRENADA AND THE GRENADINES. 
Bequia. — Contented Islanders. — The ‘ Bequia Sweet.” — 
Carib Anecdote. — Union Island. — Canouan. — An Ener- 
getic Patriarch. — Cariacou. — On the Ancient Contiguity 
of the Lesser Antilles. — The Fost Atlantis. — ‘‘ What if 
these Reefs were her Monument?” — A Glance at the Map. 
— An Isolated Geographical and Zo@logical Province. — 
Grenada. — St. George’s. — More Craters. — The Carenage. 
— The Forts. — The Lagoon. — The “ Eurydice.”— Iguanas. 
— Their Habits. — Iguana-Shooting. —Oysters growing on 
Trees. — Columbus and his Pearls. — Lizards. — A Mission- 
ary’s Grief. — Food of the Iguana. — The Mangrove. — 
Cacao. — Its Discovery. — Present Range. — Its Cultivation. 
— Cacao River. — Cocoa and Cacao. — The Tree. — The 
Fruit. — The Flower. — Idle Negroes. — Chocolate. — For- 
est Rats. — Monkeys. — Their Depredations.— An Insult . 245 
CHAPTER XVI. 
A MONKEY HUNT IN THE MOUNTAINS. 
Zones of Vegetation. — Naked Negroes. — The Road to the 
Mountains. — The Grand Etang. — Quadrupeds of the 
Lesser Antilles, Extinct and Living. +The Alco. — Pec- 
cary. — Agouti. — Manacou. — Armadillo. — Raccoon. —A 
Visit to the ‘*Tatouay Traps.”— The Forest surrounding 
the Mountain Lake. — ‘‘ Haginamah”: Is it a Carib Word? 
— ‘*Hog-in-armor,” not a Carib Word. — ‘*Le Morne des 
Sauteurs.”— The Plantain Swamp. — Signs of Monkeys. — 
The Monkeys’ Ladder. — Habits of Wild Monkeys. — The 
