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DOTTINGS ON THE ROADSIDE. [Chap. XX.—B.P. 
is abundant, but can only be obtained by digging 
wells; there is not even a rivulet on the island. 
Old Providence, St. Andrew’s, and the Corn Islands 
once formed outposts for the Buccaneers, and were 
no doubt eminently useful to those gentry as ren¬ 
dezvous in their forays on the Spanish possessions. 
At the time of the Conquest they all seem to have 
been thickly peopled, as was also the entire coast-line 
no doubt; for pottery and stone axes are constantly 
dug up. Some of the latter which came into my 
possession were very finely cut and smoothed. 
But we must now, alas, leave these enchanting is¬ 
land scenes, return to Greytown, and then take the 
king back to Blewfields, looking in, on the way up the 
coast, at the bay since named after the writer of these 
pages, u Pirn’s Bay.” I noticed some very long faces 
as we approached Greytown, and its everlasting belt 
of’surcharged rain-clouds, which, if not always pour¬ 
ing a deluge on the place, yet very seldom take them¬ 
selves off for any length of time ; so that there is 
small blame, indeed, to any one for preferring the 
bright clear sky and pleasant scenes we had left be¬ 
hind, to the damp atmosphere and inevitable mouldi¬ 
ness of that famous seaport. 
However, we were not destined to endure a very 
lengthened trial of our patience, as the king made but 
a short stay (some five days), preferring to get back 
to Blewfields, where he was more at home than in 
a place very shortly to be given up to his hated foes 
u without ‘ by your leave or with your leave.’ ” 
The treaty by which this act was consummated wiU 
