The land of the pink pearl

The day before I corrected the last proof of this work a prominent West Indian merchant said to me, Why do you waste your time writing about the Bahama I slands? We in the West Indies know no more about the Bahamas than we do about an I rish village. No doubt he said no more than the truth, for though included in the list of her Majesty s West Indian possessions, the Bahamas have so little in common with the other islands that I believe a man might spend his life travelling about the rest of the West Indies without ever hearing their name, and I am sure he might pass his days in the Bahamas and have no more idea of the mode of life or condition of the poeple in the rest of the West Indies than if he had never been beyond the limits of an English county. What can be more noteworthy than the fact that Mr.
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