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that Sir GRAHAM and other West Indians were ready to 
become American citizens, the deceased gentleman said 
it in his haste, and when smarting under a sense of 
wrong. Few, indeed, are those who sincerely desire 
such annexation, if there be any such. Our hearts, our 
pride, are in the Old Country. Personally conducted by 
Colonel ELLIOTT, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. 
FROUDE drove about the Island, seeing things from the 
outside, and not going beneath the surface. The Church 
of St. John and its churchyard seem to have interested 
him more than the people he saw " thick as rabbits in a 
" warren" (p. 1 14). It was so much more easy to gather 
information at second hand than to go himself in search of 
fa6ts, that he simply lounged life away in Barbados, 
" perfectly idle and perfectly happy" (p. no). Having 
in this manner ' done' the colony, our worthy Tourist, in 
hurrying on to Jamaica when returning from Dominica, 
had no need to land at Bridgetown, so, with a clear con- 
science he sets down in his Book — " At Barbados there 
" was nothing more for me to do or see. The English 
" Mail was on the point of sailing, and I hastened on 
"board"! 
At Dominica, Mr. FROUDE was the guest of the 
Administrator of the Government of the Island, Captain 
Spencer-Churchill. To his guest, Captain Spencer- 
Churchill talked sorrowfully enough of his own situa- 
tion and the general helplessness of it (p. 147.) Despite, 
however, our author's aversion for desponding people, he 
admits that his host made his fortnight's visit a very 
pleasant one, and that he left " Captain C. with a warm hope 
" that he might not be consigned forever to a post which 
" an English gentleman ought not to be condemned to 
