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Lafcadio Hearn. Two Years in the French West Indies
Two Years in the French West Indies
Table of Contents
PREFACE
A TRIP TO THE TROPICS
PART ONE—A MIDSUMMER TRIP TO THE TROPICS
PART TWO—MARTINIQUE SKETCHES
CHAPTER I. — LES PORTEUSES
CHAPTER II. — LA GRANDE ANSE
CHAPTER III. — UN REVENANT
CHAPTER IV. — LA GUIABLESSE
CHAPTER V. — LA VÉRETTE
CHAPTER VI. — LES BLANCHISSEUSES
CHAPTER VII. — LA PELÉE
CHAPTER VIII. — 'TI CANOTIÉ
CHAPTER IX. — LA FILLE DE COULEUR
CHAPTER X. — BÊTE-NI-PIÉ
CHAPTER XI. — MA BONNE
CHAPTER XII. — "PA COMBINÉ, CHÈ!"
CHAPTER XIII. — YÉ
CHAPTER XIV — LYS
APPENDIX — SOME CREOLE MELODIES
Footnote
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Lafcadio Hearn
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Morning over the Caribbean Sea,—a calm, extremely dark-blue sea. There are lands in sight,—high lands, with sharp, peaked, unfamiliar outlines.
We passed other lands in the darkness: they no doubt resembled the shapes towering up around us now; for these are evidently volcanic creations,—jagged, coned, truncated, eccentric. Far off they first looked a very pale gray; now, as the light increases, they change hue a little,—showing misty greens and smoky blues. They rise very sharply from the sea to great heights,—the highest point always with a cloud upon it;—they thrust out singular long spurs, push up mountain shapes that have an odd scooped-out look. Some, extremely far away, seem, as they catch the sun, to be made of gold vapor; others have a madderish tone: these are colors of cloud. The closer we approach them, the more do tints of green make themselves visible. Purplish or bluish masses of coast slowly develop green surfaces; folds and wrinkles of land turn brightly verdant. Still, the color gleams as through a thin fog.
