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Harry Alverson Franck. Roaming Through the West Indies
Roaming Through the West Indies
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. OVERLAND TO THE WEST INDIES
THE AMERICAN WEST INDIES
CHAPTER II. RANDOM SKETCHES OF HAVANA
CHAPTER III. CUBA FROM WEST TO EAST
CHAPTER IV. THE WORLD’S SUGAR BOWL
CHAPTER V. UNDER THE PALM-TREE OF HAITI
CHAPTER VI. THE DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE
CHAPTER VII. HITHER AND YON IN THE HAITIAN BUSH
CHAPTER VIII. THE LAND OF BULLET-HOLES
CHAPTER IX. TRAVELS IN THE CIBAO
CHAPTER X. SANTO DOMINGO UNDER AMERICAN RULE
CHAPTER XI. OUR PORTO RICO
CHAPTER XII. WANDERING ABOUT BORINQUEN
CHAPTER XIII. IN AND ABOUT OUR VIRGIN ISLANDS
THE BRITISH WEST INDIES
CHAPTER XIV. THE CARIBBEE ISLANDS
CHAPTER XV “LITTLE ENGLAND”
CHAPTER XVI. TRINIDAD, THE LAND OF ASPHALT
CHAPTER XVII. AFRICAN JAMAICA
THE FRENCH WEST INDIES AND THE OTHERS
CHAPTER XVIII. GUADELOUPE AND DEPENDENCIES
CHAPTER XIX. RAMBLES IN MARTINIQUE
CHAPTER XX. ODDS AND ENDS IN THE CARIBBEAN
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Harry Alverson Franck
Published by Good Press, 2022
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The memory of the war he had waged in Bordeaux caused a broad streak of ivory to break out across his ebony face as often as he caught sight of us until the “ovehseas equipment” had again disappeared in the direction of the station.
Occupation, to St. Augustine, seems to be synonymous with the unremitting pursuit of tourists. Her railway gates are the vortex of a seething whirlpool of hotel-runners and the clamoring jehus of horse and gasolene conveyances. An undisturbed stroll through her streets is out of the question, for every few yards the pedestrian is sure to hear the gentle rumble of wheels behind him and a sugary, “Carriage, sah? All de sights in town fo’ two dollars, sah, or a nice ride out to——” and so on for several minutes, until the wheedling voice has run through the gamut of sanguinity, persuasiveness, and shriveled hope, and died away in husky disappointment, only to be replaced a moment later by another driver’s honeyed tones.
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