Visit to Port Royal--Dockyard--Town--Church--Fort Augusta--The eyrie in the mountains--Ride to Newcastle--Society in Jamaica--Religious bodies--Liberty and authority 195 CHAPTER XV. The Church of England in Jamaica--Drive to Castleton--Botanical Gardens--Picnic by the river--Black women--Ball at Government House--Mandeville--Miss Roy--Country society--Manners--American visitors--A Moravian missionary--The modern Radical creed 208 CHAPTER XVI. Jamaican hospitality--Cherry Garden--George William Gordon--The Gordon riots--Governor Eyre--A dispute and its consequences--Jamaican country-house society--Modern speculation--A Spanish fable--Port Royal--The commodore--Naval theatricals--The modern sailor 224 CHAPTER XVII. Present state of Jamaica--Test of progress--Resources of the island--Political alternatives--Black supremacy and probable consequences--The West Indian problem 243 CHAPTER XVIII. Passage to Cuba--A Canadian commissioner--Havana--The Moro--The city and harbour--Cuban money--American visitors--The cathedral--Tomb of Columbus--New friends--The late rebellion--Slave emancipation--Spain and progress--A bull fight 253 CHAPTER XIX. Hotels in Havana--Sights in the city--Cigar manufactories--West Indian industries--The Captain-General--The Jesuit college--Father Viñez--Clubs in Havana--Spanish aristocracy--Sea lodging house 272 CHAPTER XX. Return to Havana--The Spaniards in Cuba--Prospects--American influence--Future of the West Indies--English rumours--Leave Cuba--The harbour at night--The Bahama Channel--Hayti--Port au Prince--The black republic--West Indian history 291 CHAPTER XXI. Return to Jamaica--Cherry Garden again--Black servants--Social conditions--Sir Henry Norman--King's House once more--Negro suffrage--The will of the people--The Irish python--Conditions of colonial union--Oratory and statesmanship 308 CHAPTER XXII. Going home--Retrospect--Alternative courses--Future of the Empire--Sovereignty of the sea--The Greeks--The rights of man--Plato--The voice of the people--Imperial federation--Hereditary colonial policy--New Irelands--Effects of party government 318 * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS.