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егет Antilles, with the exception of Dominica, where there are still to 
be found some of the aboriginal inhabitants. The Carib baskets, fibres, 
cordage, fishing lines, and other articles exhibited in the St. Vincent 
court possess great interest. This interest is increased by the fact that 
the Government of St. Vincent has despatche | six Caribs to the Jamaica 
villages, Altogether I regard the efforts made by the St. Vincent 
Government to secure a proper representation at the Jamaica Exhibition 
as vp mid erp ners s 
10. me to the Grenada and St. Lucia courts. In point of 
size and the adinbėt of exhibits neither of these attain to the standard 
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and their productions are probably equally interesting, but as regards 
their representation at the Jamaica Exhibition they have not bin equally 
successful. The Grenada «уе consist of a fine series of cured cocoa, 
the staple industry of the is ere are several fine samples of 
sugars and rums ; of spices ee as nutmegs, mace, ginger, cardamoms, 
cloves, and cinnamon ; of Arabian and Liberian coffee; of native woods, 
fibres, starches, „еей, jellies and sauces, tobacco, native grown rice, 
of cotton from Carriacou and Cannouan, some of the few places whe 
apparatus is capable of being adapted at a small cost 
to the diua “ boucan ” found on Grenada estates. The heat is 
— by a simple low-pressure boiler 
. The = Lucia exhibits consist of vacuum-pan crystallized and 
ЕН sugars, rum, cotton, fibres, syrups, tobacco, limejuice, 
pickles, starches, native woods, grain d’ambrette (Hibiscus Abelmo- 
schus) or vegetable musk, and plants said to poas medicinal properties. 
Amongst these latter are some leaves of a ho of Clusia to 
useful in cases of enlarged spleen. Mr. MY furnishes the follow- 
ing particulars :—** The Aralie leaves (Clusia rosea) ar Creoles 
as a remedy for enlarged spleen. In the green state, the full grown 
ryin d 
* The leaves being fixed in place by a broad belt round the waist, the 
ss ayant can go about his ordinary duties, take no medicines, and eat — 
drink as ma 
islands so fully in vem d with the present development in West 
Indian industries. Jamaica has taken wonderful strides during the last 
few years in such ш, and the prosperity which has resulted to 
Jamaica on this account will, I hope, before long, extend also to the 
other islands in the West Indies. As Governor-in-Chief of the Wind- 
ward Islands i it must afford your ‘Excellency great pleasure to see that 
