OLEANDERS IN BLOOM. 



from the stately royal palms in the mayor's 

 beautiful garden, down to the chaste and 

 dainty sago palm, with its crimson, waxy 

 fruit. 



At this time Bermuda is best known in 

 the States as an encampment of the Boer 

 prisoners of war. Darrel's island was the 

 chief encampment. It is surrounded on all 

 sides by deep water. One end was set 

 aside for the prisoners, the other end for 

 the Warwickshire regiment, which was as- 

 signed to the duty of guarding the prison- 

 ers. 



Many were the attempts to escape. One 

 prisoner succeeded in reaching New York, 

 and this but served to increase the vigi- 

 lance of the guards. Another, attempting 

 to swim past the dead line, was shot in the 

 nose. A third took a small wooden box, 

 bored holes in it for ventilation, covered his 

 head with it and attempted to swim away 

 by night. The sweeping searchlight of a 

 man-of-war showed but a box floating on 

 the water, yet it seemed passing strange to 

 the guard that an empty box should float to 

 windward. A boat was lowered to investi- 



BOILTNO ROCKS ON THE SOUTH COAST. 



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