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called the ‘‘Capstan House’’ and was practically empty, but 
contained a much prized memento of royalty which we were 
allowed to inspect as a special favor on the fourth of July. Mr. 
Blake escorted us into the building and unlocked a couple of 
doors which, upon being thrown back, revealed an inscription 
painted on the white wall, reading :— 
“DONE B. H. R. H., GEORGE V, IN 1883 WHEN SERVING ON 
H. M. 8. CANADA 
A 
MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY 
NEW YEAR 2 YOU ALL’ 
Another building had been used as a machine shop and one 
had an inclined plane running down to the water and had evi- 
dently been used as a sort of dry-dock, the ship being drawn 
up from the water by windlasses. One building was a complete 
mystery to us. The floor was of solid stone and there were 
rows of heavy masonry pillars, each with a dome-shaped cap 
of cement as if the structure had never been completed and the 
pillars had been capped to prevent their disintegration by 
weathering. No one seemed to know the purpose for which the 
building was intended. | 
There was a large and exceedingly convenient boathouse 
which accommodated our launch very nicely, where it could be 
kept under roof. Another building resembled one of the block 
houses in which early settlers in the United States defended 
themselves from the Indians. There were numerous slit-like 
apertures in the walls through which riflemen could fire on 
approaching enemies. 
Back of the sea-wall there were set a number of old cannon, 
their butt-ends buried deep in the earth and cement. These 
doubtless were mooring posts, probably also used in careening 
ships. At one place a large anchor lay on the ground, commem- 
orating a tragedy which occurred early in the last century 
when Lord Camelford shot and killed one of the lieutenants of 
the British Navy for ‘‘mutiny.’’ It appears, from all that we 
could learn, to have been a most cold-blooded murder. No spot 
in the British West Indies has richer historical interest than 
English Harbor, but we could not find that any detailed story of 
this place of innumerable traditions had ever been compiled and 
