MOUNTAIN CRATER, DOMINICA.
THE ENGLISH
IN
THE WEST INDIES
OR
THE BOW OF ULYSSES
BY
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY G. PEARSONAFTER DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR
NEW EDITION
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1888
All rights reserved[Pg ii]
Fürsten prägen so oft auf kaum versilbertes Kupfer
Ihr bedeutendes Bild: lange betrügt sich das Volk
Schwärmer prägen den Stempel des Geist's auf Lügen und Unsinn:
Wem der Probirstein fehlt, hält sie für redliches Gold.
Goethe.
[Pg iii]
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
My purpose in writing this book is so fully explainedin the book itself that a Preface is unnecessary. Ivisited the West India Islands in order to increase myacquaintance with the condition of the British Colonies.I have related what I saw and what I heard, withthe general impressions which I was led to form.
In a few instances, when opinions were conveyedto me which were important in themselves, but whichit might be undesirable to assign to the persons fromwhom I heard them, I have altered initials and disguisedlocalities and circumstances.
The illustrations are from sketches of my own,which, except so far as they are tolerably like thescenes which they represent, are without value. Theyhave been made producible by the skill and care ofthe engraver, Mr. Pearson, to whom my warmestthanks are due.
J.A.F.
Onslow Gardens: November 15, 1887.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
| Colonial policy—Union or separation—Self-government—Varieties of condition—The Pacific colonies—The West Indies—Proposals for a West Indian federation—Nature of the population—American union and British plantations—Original conquest of the West Indies | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| In the train for Southampton—Morning papers—The new 'LocksleyHall'—Past and present—The> 'Moselle'—Heavy weather—The Petrel—The Azores | 10 |
| CHAPTER III. | |