anish fable--Port Royal--The commodore--Naval theatricals--The
modern sailor 224

CHAPTER XVII.

Present state of Jamaica--Test of progress--Resources of the
island--Political alternatives--Black supremacy and probable
consequences--The West Indian problem 243

CHAPTER XVIII.

Passage to Cuba--A Canadian commissioner--Havana--The Moro--The
city and harbour--Cuban money--American visitors--The
cathedral--Tomb of Columbus--New friends--The late rebellion--Slave
emancipation--Spain and progress--A bull fight 253

CHAPTER XIX.

Hotels in Havana--Sights in the city--Cigar manufactories--West
Indian industries--The Captain-General--The Jesuit college--Father
Vinez--Clubs in Havana--Spanish aristocracy--Sea
lodging house 272

CHAPTER XX.

Return to Havana--The Spaniards in Cuba--Prospects--American
influence--Future of the West Indies--English rumours--Leave
Cuba--The harbour at night--The Bahama Channel--Hayti--Port
au Prince--The black republic--West Indian history 291

CHAPTER XXI.

Return to Jamaica--Cherry Garden again--Black servants--Social
conditions--Sir Henry Norman--King's House once more--Negro
suffrage--The will of the people--The Irish python--Conditions
of colonial union--Oratory and statesmanship 308

CHAPTER XXII.

Going home--Retrospect--Alternative courses--Future of the
Empire--Sovereignty of the sea--The Greeks--The rights of
man--Plato--The voice of the people--Imperial federation--Hereditary
colonial policy--New Irelands--Effects of party government 318

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

Mountain Crater, Dominica _Frontispiece_
Silk Cotton Tree, Jamaica _Title page_
Blue Basin, Trinidad _To face page_ 72
Morning Walk, Dominica 136
Port Royal, Jamaica 171
Valley in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica 194
Kingston and Harbour, from Cherry Gardens 234
Havana, from the Quarries 258
Port au Prince, Hayti