THE WEST INDIES _By the same Artist._ MOROCCO containing 74 full-page reproductions in colour of MR. A. S. FORREST’S pictures. TEXT BY S. L. BENSUSAN. _Price 20s. Net._ [Illustration: COMING FROM MASS, ST. LUCIA THE WEST INDIES PAINTED BY A. S. FORREST DESCRIBED BY JOHN HENDERSON · PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK · LONDON · MCMV [Illustration] Contents CHAP. PAGE I. HISTORICAL 1 II. JAMAICA 11 III. THE TOWN OF KINGSTON 27 IV. THE PEOPLE OF JAMAICA 41 V. THE PHILOSOPHY OF A JAMAICAN GAMIN 57 VI. THE DEVOTION OF THE JAMAICAN NEGRO 65 VII. TURTLE FISHING 73 VIII. THE WOMEN OF WILD MAN STREET 81 IX. THE WEST INDIAN ARMY 89 X. A WEST INDIAN COURT HOUSE 99 XI. THE MILITARY CAMP AT NEWCASTLE 107 XII. THE RECREATIONS OF THE BLACK MAN 115 XIII. THE DANDY AND THE COQUETTE 127 XIV. BOG WALK 135 XV. THE POLITICS OF A JAMAICAN NEGRO 143 XVI. THE WHITE MAN’S POLITICS 155 XVII. THE RAILWAY IN JAMAICA 163 XVIII. ALLIGATOR SHOOTING IN A WEST INDIAN SWAMP 171 XIX. COMMERCIAL JAMAICA 181 XX. THE FLORA OF JAMAICA 193 XXI. A WEST INDIAN RACE-COURSE 201 XXII. THE HILL STATIONS 211 XXIII. A FRAGMENT 219 XXIV. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO TOURISTS 227 XXV. CERTAIN THINGS THE WEST INDIAN TOURIST MUST NOT DO 237 XXVI. THE CARIBBEAN GROUP 243 XXVII. HAYTI 257 XXVIII. IN CONCLUSION 265 List of Illustrations 1. Coming from Mass, St. Lucia _Frontispiece_