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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 CONTI- 
GUITY OF THE LESSER ANTILLES. — THE LOST ATLANTIS. — 
‘““ WHAT IF THESE REEFS WERE HER MONUMENT ?” — A GLANCE 
AT THE MAP.—AN ISOLATED GEOGRAPHICAL AND ZOOLOGI- 
CAL PROVINCE. — GRENADA. — ST. GEORGE’S. — MORE CRA- 
TERS. — THE CARENAGE. — THE FORTS. — THE LAGOON. — THE 
“ EURYDICE.” — IGUANAS. — THEIR HABITS. — IGUANA-SHOOT- 
ING. — OYSTERS GROWING ON TREES.— COLUMBUS AND HIS 
PEARLS. — LIZARDS. — A MISSIONARY’S GRIEF. — FOOD OF THE 
IGUANA.— THE MANGROVE.—CACAO.—ITS DISCOVERY.— PRES- 
ENT RANGE.—ITS CULTIVATION.— CACAO RIVER.— COCOA AND 
CACAO.—THE TREE.—THE FRUIT.—THE FLOWER.—IDLE NE- 
GROES. — CHOCOLATE. — FOREST RATS. — MONKEYS. — THEIR 
DEPREDATIONS. — AN INSULT. 
HE GRENADINES, a great number of islets 
forming a connecting chain between the islands 
of St. Vincent and Grenada, extend over a degree of 
latitude. They are small and low-lying, many of them 
being merely rocks protruding from the water, with- 
out rivers, little cultivated, with no communication 
with the larger islands except by small -boats, and 
yet some of them densely populated. The largest of 
these is Bequia, nearest to St. Vincent, which is six 
miles in length and above a mile in breadth, with 
