302 CAMPS IN THE. CARIBBEES. 
The ground shook, walls cracked, and, in common 
with every one else, I rushed into the street. There 
was the entire populace crowded together in terror, 
most of them wildly shrieking and gesticulating. The 
shocks lasted but a few minutes, and then all went 
calmly back to their houses. After this the sky was 
as serene and blue, and the trees as quiet, as before, 
PIRTHPLACE OF JOSEPHINE, 
and I finished my photographs of beautiful Josephine, 
who had been an unmoved spectator of it all, without 
interruption. 
The town of Fort de France is intimately connected 
with scenes in the early life of Josephine, and of her 
parents. In 1755, Joseph Gaspard de La Pagerie, 
