298 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
THE BIRTH-PLACE OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. 
FORT DE FRANCE. — THE PARK.—TAMARINDS AND MANGOS. — 
STATUE OF JOSEPHINE. — THE TROIS PITONS.— HISTORIC HILLS. 
— CORONATION. — INSCRIPTION. — AN EARTHQUAKE. — TER- 
ROR. — PARENTS OF JOSEPHINE. — HER GRANDMOTHER. — 
ALEXANDER DE BEAUHARNAIS. — A VALUABLE DOCUMENT. — 
MARRIAGE REGISTER OF JOSEPHINE’S PARENTS. — BUNGLING 
BIOGRAPHERS. — MUSTY MEMOIRS. — FORT ROYAL BAY.— THE 
PASSAGE-BOAT “JOHN.” — TROIS ILETS, — THE BOULANGER. — 
A FESTIVE FATHER.— A DINNER IN JEOPARDY. — A LOW 
COUCH.—A HIGH BILL. — CHURCH IN WHICH JOSEPHINE WAS 
BAPTIZED. — A TABLET TO HER MOTHER’S MEMORY. — LA 
PAGERIE, BIRTH-PLACE OF JOSEPHINE. — THE HURRICANE. — 
THE ROOF THAT SHELTERED AN EMPRESS. — GROUND HER 
FEET HAD PRESSED. — YOUTH OF JOSEPHINE. — ANOTHER 
SHOCK.— THE NEGRO BARRACKS.— THE EMPRESS’ BATH. — 
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO! — THE SIBYL.—THE HUMMING- 
BIRD. —IN PERIL FROM A SERPENT.— A PEACEFUL SCENE. — 
A RUDE AWAKENING. — THE RIVER COMES DOWN. — EARTH- 
QUAKE AGAIN. —RAGS AND MELANCHOLY. 
LITTLE steamer runs between St. Pierre and 
Fort de France, the seat of government of the 
island, coasting the shore, past a most interesting 
landscape twenty miles, the banks high and precipi- 
tous, exhibiting many different strata, and affording to 
a geologist a glimpse of the manner in which the 
island was formed. Huge rounded hills come down 
to the sea, where they are abruptly cut down, looking 
