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that on the 3rd of May, 1665, when it was captured 
hy Admiral Penn and General Venables,—-just one 
hundred and seventy-one years after its discovery,— 
not a trace of the aboriginal races could be found ; 
and instead of a thickly-populated country, only fifteen 
hundred Europeans, and about an equal number of 
negroes and mulattoes, were living on the island. 
The war of races is no longer between Indian and 
Spaniard, it is now white versus black, and the day is 
not far distant when this issue will be tried as dis¬ 
tinctly as that of Spaniard and Indian. 
Looking landward from the vessel, which long 
since had run out of gunshot of the antediluvian 
fortifications commanding the entrance to this great 
naval station,—“Heavensave the mark !”—the view 
is most charming. On the right, to the eastward, 
the shore stretches away past the Yallahs towards 
Morant Point, covered with verdure and dotted here 
and there with picturesque plantations, the Blue 
Mountain Eange rises towering over all to a height 
of some 7000 feet, with the white houses of New¬ 
castle glistening in the sun and resting as it were 
on its western shoulder;—right astern, and in close 
proximity to the harbour, the little fairy islets, 
covered by picturesque tropical vegetation and crowned 
with the graceful cocoa-nut-tree, dot the surface of 
a sea bright, beautifully blue, and so clear that the 
bottom can be easily seen at a depth of eight fa¬ 
thoms ;—to the left, the westward, the broken outline 
of the island loses itself in the distance, while over¬ 
head is a brilliant sky, with straggling fleecy clouds 
