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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Mrs. C. R. Miller 



A COUNTRY SCENE IN HAITI 



Every morning hundreds of women may be seen riding- into town on horses, mules, or 



donkeys, bringing their produce to market. 



frequently handsome men, and Domin- 

 icans generally seem to me a good-look- 

 ing people, pale olive in complexion, but 

 with features that are sometimes almost 

 Greek in outline. They are obviously a 

 successful race intermixture between the 

 Spaniard and the American Indian. 



There are, of course, some thousands 

 "i" negroes in Santo Domingo, but they 

 do n< it appear to have mixed their blood 

 with that of the Spaniard so much as has 

 been the case in the French-speaking 

 portion of the island. 



STRANGE PAINTINGS FOUND ON Till'. WALLS 

 OF ISLAND CAVERNS 



In the middle of Lake Knriquillo. on 

 Dominican territory, is a small island 

 which has been acquired by British con- 

 cessionaires. This island produces rock 

 salt, which is worked for commercial 

 purposes. It has caverns, once inhabited 

 by the aborigines, the walls of which are 

 painted with heads, figures, and objects 

 not easily explained. On account of the 

 human faces which are painted on these 

 rocks, the caverns are known to the 



Dominicans as "Las Caritas." or "Little 

 Faces." 



If the low-lying districts of Haiti are 

 beautiful and attractive in their vegeta- 

 tion and bird fauna, what may not be said 

 about the Haitian mountains. Veritable 

 earthly paradises, perhaps in a way 

 { though less interesting to the botanist) 

 more attractive than the mountains of 

 Jamaica, where there is too much vege- 

 tation. There has been rather reckless 

 clearing away of forests in Haiti and 

 Santo Domingo, but the result in some 

 cases is pleasing, for it has produced 

 great open spaces on the mountains, 

 which are covered with a lovely carpet 

 of turf, ferns, low shrubs, and lovely 

 flowers. 



CRISP ATMOSPHERE. DELIGHTFUL SUN- 

 SHINE 



Here, in an atmosphere which has all 

 the crispness of temperate North America 

 and the delightful sunshine of an English 

 June, the eye is entranced with the beauty 

 of the landscapes. From a painter's point 

 of view, they are perhaps more wonder- 



