1894
March 2          
(No 2)   
St Lucia

In this, as in all West Indian towns which
                                                  I have been, town pigeons of various colors looking
                                                               exactly like our own birds are very numerous

                                                               In the afternoon we walked about town
                                                               & visited the fish market where we saw a
                                                               large "dolphin" with orange spurs on the back
                                                               and a number of small lively fish all of
                                                               the same kind. There are [?] of the
                                                               extraordinary pained creatures which I saw at
                                                               Santa Cruz.

                                                               We left our anchorage at 5PM and reached
                                                               the celebrated [?] at the bottom end of
                                                               the island before it was fairly dark. We
                                                               scenery along this coast surpasses anything that
                                                               we have seen before. The country is everywhere
                                                               covered with dense primitive forest and is
                                                               exceedingly wild and mountainous. Nearly all
                                                               the mountains have this conical volcanic form

                                                                    The [crossed out] stary [/crossed out] heavens to-night are magnificent beyond
                                                                anything that I have imagined possible even for
                                                                these latitudes. At least 100 stars equal in apparent
                                                                size & brilliance to Jupiter and [?] as
                                                                [?] [?] them at the north were flaring in the
                                                                sky and Jupiter and Sirius looked like small
                                                                moons. [?] first I am the turn of the [?] southern
                                                                crosses at St Christopher. This [?] my [?] to night
                                                                [sketch of the stars]   *      *             *      *
                                                                                                  *         *              *       * [/sketch of the stars]      All the stars surround
                                                                                               [?] cross                         [?] Cross                          to hang any low in
                                                                                                                                                                              the [?]