88i. A large and two small ships within a 

 garter surmounted by a crown constitute the 

 principal device of the badge of the Bahamas. 

 On the garter are words which tell us that the 

 pirates have been expelled and that business 

 has been resumed. This is the badge of the 

 group of islands which include what is now 

 known as Watling's Island, believed to have 

 been the first landing place of Christopher 

 Columbus, who called it San Salvador. 



882. The badge of Sombrero and Bahama 

 Lights has a blue field bearing a ring of red 

 inclosing a lighthouse shedding its rays. The 

 ring is crowned and inscribed "Board of 

 Trade." Above the crown is a scroll bearing 

 the word "Bahamas." 



883. Jamaica's badge shows an escutcheon 

 bearing St. George's cross and surmounted by 

 a lizard. Upon the cross are distributed, one 

 at each arm and one at the intersection, five 

 pineapples. The escutcheon is supported by 

 two Indians. 



884. The Turks and Caicos Islands, which 

 are close to the Bahamas, have an escutcheon 

 which consists of a full-rigged sailing ship in 

 the background, a man making salt in the mid- 

 dle foreground, and the name of the islands 

 below. 



885. On the badge of the Leeward Islands 

 appears in the middle distance a mountainous 

 coast, skirted by a full-rigged ship ; in the 

 foreground is another ship ; on the shore a 

 pineapple, larger than either ship, and three 

 smaller ones. Above the whole appear the 

 British royal arms. 



886. Britannia, robed in blue, red, and er- 

 mine, and ruling the waves from the backs of 

 two sea-horses, forms the principal scheme of 

 the badge of Barbados. One sea-horse in this 

 badge has a blue tail. 



887. The Windward Isles have a badge 

 which makes use of a garter encircling a blue 

 field, upon which is placed a quartered shield — 

 red, yellow, green, and purple. The device is 

 crowned. The motto is, "I Pede Fausto," 

 "Make a propitious beginning." 



888. St. Lucia, the chief coaling station of 

 the British fleet in the West Indies, has for a 

 badge a landscape in which appear the Pitons, 

 twin mountains of the island, and the ever- 

 bubbling volcano Soufriere, with a land-locked 

 harbor in the foreground. The Latin motto 

 below describes this harbor as "Hardly a faith- 

 less guard for ships." 



889. St. Vincent's badge has a classical 

 group showing a woman holding a branch and 

 another kneeling before the altar of the law. 

 upon which she is placing a wreath. The badge 

 bears the motto, "Pax et Justicia." 



890. Discovered by Columbus on his third 

 voyage, Grenada seems to have taken his ship, 

 in full sail and running before a spanking 

 breeze toward the island, as its badge. The in- 

 scription "Clarior e Tenebris" means "Brighter 

 out of the darkness," and doubtless refers to 

 the fact that Grenada is beyond the hurricane 

 line. 



891. The badge of British Guiana, the Brit- 

 ish Umpire's continental holdings on the coast 

 of South America, consists of a clipper in full 

 sail surrounded by a garter of gold. 



892. The facts that British Honduras is a 

 mahogany colony, that it belongs to the British 

 Empire, and that it is given to trading, are 

 brought out in the shield of the colony, which 

 is circular, one-third of it being devoted to 

 the display of the tools of mahogany logging, 

 the second third showing the union jack, while 

 the remaining third bears a full-rigged sailing 

 ship. 



893. Trinidad and Tobago have a badge 

 which shows a mountain in the background, a 

 frigate in the left middle ground, and a blue 

 ensign on a jetty in the right middle ground. 

 A boat, a smaller ship, a house, and several 

 spars showing behind the jetty complete the 

 picture. Below, on white, is a Latin inscrip- 

 tion meaning "He approves of the people unit- 

 ing and entering into treaties." 



894. A white bull standing in tussac grass 

 and a frigate in a river close by form the 

 badge of the Falkland Islands, lying off South 

 America and belonging to England. 



895. The smaller British islands of the Pa- 

 cific are under the control of the Western 

 Pacific High Commissioner. His badge is the 

 crown of the Empire above the letters W P 

 H C. 



896. The main feature of the badge of the 

 Fiji Islands is an escutcheon bearing at the 

 top on red the British lion. Below is the red 

 cross of St. George on white. The quarters 

 thus formed bear specimens of the vegetable 

 and bird life of the islands. The shield is 

 supported by two Polynesians wearing skirts 

 of straw and standing on a scroll upon which 

 is inscribed a motto in the native language. 

 The crest is a native catamaran in full sail. 



897. The resident commissioner of the New 

 Hebrides has as a badge a disk of white en- 

 circled by a wreath of green and red and bear- 

 ing a crown with the words NEW HEBRIDES 

 around it. 



898. The Protectorate of the British Solo- 

 mon Islands has a simple badge, consisting of 

 the royal crown, surrounded by the three words 

 on a white field, British solomon islands. 



899. The British Resident of the Gilbert 

 and Ellice Islands, in the southern Pacific, has 

 a badge which consists of a white field bearing 

 below the letters B R, above which is a crown. 



900. The Governor of New Zealand flies a 

 flag which consists of the national flag of the 

 British Empire, bearing at the intersection of 

 the crosses the badge of the island (901). 



901. Xew Zealand's badge is a wreath-en- 

 circled design of white, bearing four stars in 

 the form of a cross, with the letters N Z in 

 the center. The stars are emblematic of the 

 southern cross, which appears in the skies over 

 Xew Zealand. 



902. The blue ensign of Xew Zealand bears 

 the southern cross on the fly, the stars being 

 red with white borders. 



903. The red ensign of Xew Zealand bears 

 the southern cross in white stars of five points. 



904. The ensign of Paratonga, which flies 

 over sundry islands in the Pacific, has a field 

 consisting of three stripes, the upper and the 

 lower red and the middle one white. Upon 

 the white stripe are three five-pointed blue 

 stars. 



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