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OUR CRITICS AT THE PANTOMIMES

... Grey), and we find the abandoned friends ajvfl rela tives of Gulliver1 and Crusoe at Margate, preparing to start for the Caribbean Islands, under charge of Winkyfum (Miss Emily Randall). To this, Romance objects, and to com pensate for their disappointment ...

A BIG INVESTMENT

... n reciter, and with Gudger for a tattooed man, who had escaped by a miracle, and highly ornamented, from savages in the Caribbean seas he was a sturdy, square man, whom we stencilled over with an'elaborate pattern in indigo twice a week we had not the ...

CIRCULAR NOTES

... t (to whom I am much indebted for her lively letter), do ladies go in for cricket. Ear away in the Western Isles of the Caribbean Sea, the dusky maids and matrons wield the willow, and enter the lists uuhandicapped against the male Quasliies. All over ...

OLTMPIA. A VARIED an

... the picturesque background, is very fine. Other mass episodes which should also be mentioned are the gracefully designed Caribbean ballet earlier in the piece, the hornpipe by a host of little sailors at the opening, and a good Ethiopian song and banjo ...

The Island of Montserrat

... a'breadth of five miles from east to west. It is composed of a small cluster of volcanic mountain tops, rising out of the Caribbean Sea, to the height of 3,000 feet, the summits being often concealed by floating clouds. Their steep sides are covered with ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... start ing from and returning to Southampton, including New York, Florida Coast, rampico, Vera Cruz, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Caribbean Islands, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Falkland Islands, Magellan Straits, Smith's Sound, Valparaiso, Juan. Fernandez ...

A NATURALIST IN DESERT ISLANDS

... vegetable life of some kind. And in comparison with the worst off of these beginners in development the remote places in the Caribbean which the author had the opportunity of visiting during a yachting cruise with Sir Frederic Johnstone, are comparatively ...

RED TOOTH

... Bequia have villages of niggers. But for he most part they are just a broken ridge of scorched rocks thrusting out of the Caribbean barren and desolate. Nought alive but a brown pelican ever sets foot on 'em, and they're as lonely as the North Pole all ...

THE STYX

... Tortola, and Santa Cruz. Her lines were a joy to the seafaring eye, and she was pointed out as the fastest vessel in the Caribbean. But none knew much about her business, and her crew were not St. Thomas men. Captain Bastion was his own skipper, and when ...

FISHING AT GATUN, REPUBLIC OF PANAMA: THE NOTED EXPLORER, BIG GAME HUNTER, AND FISHERMAN; A FAMOUS FRENCH ..

... intersected at one part by that vast engineering feat of man, the Panama Canal, and fed by the Chagres River, empties into the Caribbean Sea through the mighty Gatun Floodgates, three hundred yards below which lies the pool that produces some of the most excellent ...

AN EXTENSIVE FISHING EXPEDITION: DETAILS OF MR. MITCHELL-HEDGES' PROJECTED JOURNEY

... Colombia and, after penetrating the hinterland in the almost unknown parts, will return to the coast and big-game fish the Caribbean Sea along the shores of that Republic, stretching to Panama. He has received a letter from Colonel H. E. Cloke, of the United ...

CONFESSIONS OF AN AGITATED SPORTSMAN: THE SAN BLAS PEOPLE

... aborigines occupying the Harien coast, and had reported the steep slopes of the mountains, which there cling close to the Caribbean, to be in a highly intensified state of cultiva tion. I encountered, also, an interesting account of a ship wrecked conquisitador ...