322 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
CHAPTER XIX. 
ASCENT OF THE GUADELOUPE SOUFRIERE. 
POINT A PITRE. — THE RIVIERE SALEE. — USINES. —- EARTH- 
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QUAKE, FIRE AND HURRICANE.— A LIVING BULWARK. — THE 
CARAVELS OF COLUMBUS.— OUR LADY OF GUADELOUPE, — 
THE CARIBS. —-BASSE TERRE. — LE PERE LABAT. — ORPHANS. 
— THE CHOLERA PLAGUE.— A PERMIS DE CHASSE. — MIXED. 
— A HORSE WITH POINTS. — GOVERNMENT SQUARE, — THE CON- 
VENT. — A SUMMER RETREAT. — MATOUBA. — MY THATCHED 
HUT. — DOCTOR COLARDEAU.— THE COOLIE.— THE COFFEE 
PLANTATION. — FIRST COFFEE IN THE WEST INDIES. — ITS CUL- 
TIVATION. — TEMPERATURE OF THE COFFEE REGION. — BLOS- 
SOMS AND FRUIT. — PICKING AND PREPARING. —:THE HIGH 
WOODS. — THEIR GRANDEUR. — GIANT TREES. —,HUGE BUT- 
TRESSES. — LIANAS, ROPES AND CABLES. — EPIAK ES AND 
PARASITES. — AERIAL GARDENS. — THE SULPHUR STREAM. = 
THE CONE. — THE SUMMIT. — THE PORTAL. — BLASTS OF HOT 
AIR. — NATURE’S ARCANA, — SULPHUR CRYSTALS. — ERUP- 
TIONS. —— A GRAND VIEW. — IMPENETRABLE. ORESTS. — AN 
EXTINCT BIRD.— JUAN PONCE DE LEON. — T. ‘FOUNTAIN OF 
YOUTH. — THE DESCENT INTO GLOOM. 
T was in the height of the “ hurricane season,” in 
August, that I left Isle of Martinique, the birth- 
place of Josephine, for Guadeloupe. At four o’clock, 
one calm morning, we steamed into the harbor of Point 
a Pitre, Guadeloupe’s metropolis, and fired a gun. It 
was very dark; only the light-house lamp sent its 
gleam abroad; but in an hour the water about us was 
alive with boats. 
