BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 241 
life of the native Antiguans both at St. John’s and the country 
districts, that is as comprehensive as could be desired. Through 
the courtesy of the authorities, Mr. Ricker took a moving pic- 
ture of a review of the Defense Force and Police Force that 
should prove highly interesting. 
The vicinity of English Harbor is the most picturesque part 
of the island, as well as the most important from a historical 
point of view. On Sundays we devoted a part of our time to 
visiting such points as were within walking distance. One of 
the most interesting of these walks was to Shirley Heights 
and the ‘‘Ridge.’’ A short ride in a rowboat took us from the 
Dockyard to the landing below Clarence House, which is reached 
by a road ascending rather abruptly. This house was built 
about the year 1786 for Prince William Henry, afterwards Duke 
of Clarence and still later King William IV. Of late years it 
has been used as a Summer residence by the Governors of the 
Leeward Islands. A beautiful view of English Harbor and the 
surrounding country can be enjoyed from the front veranda 
of this house. Passing on up the hill behind Clarence House, 
an old government road offers an easy path to the Ridge, where 
one finds on either hand evidence of the naval and military 
structures, consisting of elaborate fortifications and accommo- 
dations for the considerable bodies of troops that were quar- 
tered there in by-gone days. Here is the ruin of a solidly built 
powder magazine. A little farther on are great catch-basins of 
solid masonry with immense cisterns beneath still holding quan- 
tities of water. A large hospital stood on the top of the ridge, 
but is now entirely in ruins. The officers’ quarters is one of 
the most imposing of these buildings, the solid arches of the 
long stretch of veranda still being intact. There are ruins 
everywhere and the remains of ereat structures, even the names 
of which are known to few persons. Gun emplacements and 
fortifications are encountered every few minutes along the walk 
on the Ridge. Here were quartered at times many thousand 
troops and one can well believe from the extent of the ruins 
that there was no exaggeration in the story told me by an official 
to the effect that Great Britain had spent some £25,000,000 in 
and about English Harbor. 
At the extreme end of the Ridge is a cemetery with a monu- 
