42 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
crystals of sulphur, lime, and magnesia, and in places 
was green like chalcedony —a most beautiful minia- 
ture.of some cave I have seen, where stalagmites of 
every shape were colored by salts of iron. 
Floating in this healing pool, in an element delight- 
fully warm, I resigned myself to the unalloyed delight 
that dripping water, tropical plants, and trees, and 
balmy atmosphere, all contribute to induce. Floating 
thus in dreamy sensuousness, I wondered vaguely 
why this free life of the forest, untrammeled by care 
or desire of gain, could not always exist for me. It 
was too irksome to even think an answer; impossible 
to give it utterance; and it remains unanswered to 
this day. 
