Life and adventure in the West Indies : a sequel to Adventures in search of a living in Spanish-America / by "Vaquero".

  • Vaquero, pseud.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Life and adventure in the West Indies : a sequel to Adventures in search of a living in Spanish-America / by "Vaquero". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI. IN JAMAICA. THE old business area of Kingston had now settled down into that state of chronic desolation which it assumed for con- siderably moie than a year, until a plan had been adopted for utilizing the grant and the loan of money furnished by the Home Government for building purposes.. During this period the frag- ments of the demolished houses were merely piled up at the sides of the streets, the walls of the ruins being allowed to stand unless they interfered with the public safety. These thoroughfares were still necessary for various purposes, such as to connect the suburbs on Kin^str?^ ^ 3 °l thec+town> especially by the tramway through King Street and Harbour Street, and to afford access to the patched- up post office, as well as to the steamers moored at the edge of !h^ i‘ ,°V ™dy day the dust was here at its worst, with of akt?afflIedge t iat !ihlu WarS n0t fr°m the comparatively clean surface of a traffic-worn road, but from the remains of lately-inhabited houses where for several weeks an occasional foetid sme 1 which attracted l°lm Cl'0WS) made 0ne ^k suspiciously thp pHLi lf heaPS of ruins- These birds are identical with States. VU tUre' bemg m faCt the turkey-buzzard of the United wou^e“Uhe0diSllenCe in Jamfca 1 aIready knew that there charge at the hotek k w oimr ^ , s a lllle> rue minimum are often so distant that a drive\n'day' the pIaces of interest attempt at a walking trin rai,c ]e.m 1S exPe.nsive> while any upon with a certain amount of n, 3 wkl!e Pedestrian to be looked tion. In fact Kmgston k IImoTt^ i7 ^ ^ mral P°P“,a- a stranger can live at a fi.Vlv h * C °P y P ace 111 Jamaica where day, owing to the numbei of'^ i ’ !Ty f°Ur shiIli§* by the salaries, who have to be nmvirk^^-fi *2? emPIoYees with small reasonable rates. P ded with the necessaries of life at one can returnPto Kingston* by rmf Bof Walk> fr0m which strange name, said to^be a corrnntin f same day. This somewhat £2i.V4“a:!.!,3 “ 4 £ s. s*r»s