Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2 - Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main

Florence By Grant Allen Romance and Teutonic Switzerland By W. D. McCrackan Old World Memories By Edward Lowe Temple Paris By Grant Allen Feudal and Modern Japan By Arthur May Knapp The Unchanging East By Robert Barr Venice By Grant Allen Gardens of the Caribbees By Ida M. H. Starr Belgium: Its Cities By Grant Allen Sketches of a C r u i s e to the W e s t I n d i e s a n d t h e S p a n i s h M a i n HAD we known just a little more about Trinidad, it would have made a great difference in that luncheon, but it all came out wrong because some of us didnt know. Too late to influence us in the least, we read in the Daily Gleaner, of Jamaica, that the beef sold in Trinidad is exported alive from Venezuela. To be sure, we were aware that Venezuela occupies a large part of the northern coast of South America, and were conscious that Trinidad lies enclosed in a great bay of that coast, called the Gulf of Paria, off the delta of the Orinoco River; also, in a hazy way, we knew that the Spanish Main is a name applied somewhat vaguely to that same South American coasta relic of the days of pirates, buccaneers, and freebooting English admirals; but we no more expected to be served a roast of beef from the Spanish Main than a dish of Boston baked beans from our castles in Spain. The two dimly intangible names had ever borne a close comradeship in our minds, a poetic association affiliated them in closest bonds. The same sun kissed into rose tints the turrets of our castles in Spain and the lofty summits of the Spanish Main. The same romance lifted them both away from reality into that land just bordering upon the Islands of the Blest, and much as we longed to materialise our dreams, and make the Spanish Main a usable fact, when the opportunity came for us to do so, it slipped away from us before we were conscious of its existence. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 43771
Author: Starr, Ida May Hill
Release Date: Sep 20, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English