Mr. Froude's Negrophobia. 87 
" no more refer to trees than ' barbati ' standing alone 
" could refer to trees in Latin. The name is a century 
" older than the English occupation, for I have seen it in 
" a Spanish Chart of 1525. The question is of some 
" interest, since it perhaps implies that at the first dis- 
" covery there was a race of bearded Caribs there." 
(p.p. 38, 39). Now, the fact is that Barbados did not, ori- 
ginally, standalone. The full name was Los Arboles Bar- 
bados, The Bearded Trees, as Mr. FROUDE may find set 
forth in Ramusio. As Mr. FROUDE'S life's work has 
been the writing of History, it might have been expected 
that, at all events, in his own particular line of 
study, he would have taken pains to be accurate, 
but, it is only too patent that The English in the 
West Indies is a mere piece of Book-making, con- 
taining no real study of the past History, and still less 
of the present life, of the English and African Races in 
the West Indies. Of the actual condition of the British 
West Indies of to-day Mr. Froude knows as much, and 
as little, as a Cook's Tourist, even when personally 
conducted, might pretend to. How could it be other- 
wise ?, 
Mr. FROUDE arrived at Barbados on the 12th of 
January, 1887, and left Barbados for England on the 
3rd of April following. In all, he spent 81 days in the 
West Indies, British and Spanish. Of this time, how- 
ever, about 25 days were occupied in journeying to 
and fro between Jamaica and Cuba and in staying three 
weeks in the latter Island (p. 336). He contrasts the 
presence in numbers of the Spaniards in Cuba with 
the absence of Englishmen from the British West Indies, 
quite forgetful of the facts, that, the climate of Cuba is 
