in half a score of years
Dominica would be the brightest gem of the Antilles. From America, from
England, from all parts of the world, admiring tourists would be
flocking there to see what Government could do, and curious politicians
with jealous eyes admitting reluctantly unwelcome conclusions.

Woman! no mortal o'er the widespread earth
Can find a fault in thee; thy good report
Doth reach the widespread heaven, as of some prince
Who, in the likeness of a god, doth rule
O'er subjects stout of heart and strong of hand;
And men speak greatly of him, and his land
Bears wheat and rye, his orchards bend with fruit,
His flocks breed surely, the sea yields her fish,
Because he guides his folk with wisdom.
In grace and manly virtue.[11]

Because 'He guides with wisdom.' That is the whole secret. The
leading of the wise few, the willing obedience of the many, is the
beginning and the end of all right action. Secure this, and you secure
everything. Fail to secure it, and be your liberties as wide as you can
make them, no success is possible.

FOOTNOTES:

[11] [Greek: o gynai ouk an tis se broton ep' apeirona gaian
neikeoi; e gar seu kleos ouranon euryn hikanei;
hoste teu e basileost amymonos, hoste theoudes
andrasin en polloisi kai iphthimoisin anasson,
eudikias anechesi; pheresi de gaia melaina
purous kai krithas, brithesi de dendrea karpoi
tiktei de empeda mela, thalassa de parechei ichthys,
ex euegesies; aretosi de laoi hupo autou.--_Odyssey_,
xix. 107.]

CHAPTER XII.

The Darien canal--Jamaica mail packet--Captain W.--Retrospect of
Jamaican history--Waterspout at sea--Hayti--Jacmel--A walk through
the town--A Jamaican planter--First sight of the Blue
Mountains--Port Royal--Kingston--The Colonial Secretary--Gordon
riots--Changes in the Jamaican constitution.

Once more to Barbadoes, but merely to change there from steamer to
steamer. My course was now across the Caribbean Sea to the great islands
at the bottom of it. The English mail, after calling and throwing off
its lateral branches at Bridgetown, pursues its direct course to Hayti
and Jamaica, and so on to Vera Cruz and the Darien canal. This wonderful
enterprise of M. Lesseps has set moving the loose negro population of
the Antilles and Jamaica. Unwilling to work as they are supposed to be,