What will be its effect on the several islands? The present unsatisfactory system of semi “make-believe” is impossible. It cannot last for ever. The question Britain has to consider is, Shall it be a black or a white government in the West Indies? If this country is reconciled to the eventual existence of a black government then the existing system is good enough. If not, something ought to be done immediately,--though exactly what could be done I cannot pretend to know. I leave that matter to the consideration of people more qualified to make suggestions. I believe that the negro is, and at any rate for many generations will continue to be, incapable of self-government; I know that no white people could live in a country ruled by black men. And I firmly believe our West Indian possessions are in danger of falling under the government of their black people. That, in my opinion, is the greatest of all the West Indian problems. Commercial difficulties will solve themselves. The natural riches of the beautiful islands of the West must sooner or later bring a great harvest of gain to their owners. The sugar industry will revive, the West Indian fruit trade is to-day only in its infancy. The Caribbean islands are destined to become the fruit gardens of the world. And many smaller industries will spring into existence. There can be no doubt as to the richness of the industrial future of the Indies. The one difficulty is this political difficulty: the inevitable struggle for supremacy between the white man and the black. Index Alligator, West Indian, 174 America, intervention of, 158 Animal life, 140 Antigua, 251 Arima, 255 Barbadoes, 245 Beet bounties, 183 Belle Vue, 215 Blackbeard, 6 Black children, 217 Blue Mountains, 15 Bog Walk, 137 Buccaneers, 6 Caribs, 9 Cassava starch, 191 Cathedral, the old, 229 Chamberlain, Mr., 190 Children, black, 217 Cromwell, the Protector, 9 Cuba, 14 Dignity dance, 85 Dominica, 250 Emancipation Act, 21 Filibusters, 6 Fort Augustine, 174 Fruit trade, the, 189 Gordon, 263 Government, representative, 146 Grand Cayman, 76 Hayti, 259 Hope Garden, 231 Hunts Bay, 175 Imperial line of steamers, 190 Intervention of America, 158 Jamaica, gradual decay of, 185 want of men in, 188 Jamaican buggy, 51 freedom, 158 police, 95 revivalist meetings, 70 Jockey, the coloured, 209 Jones, Sir Alfred, 190 Kidd, 6 Kingston, the market-place, 34 Labour question, 186 Liberation Act, 187 Malarial fever, 24 Mandeville, 214 Martinique, 248 Montego Bay, 229 Mont Pelée, 248 Morant Point, 15 Morgan, 6 Nevis, 251 Newcastle, 109 Octoroon, the cultured, 221 Pitch lake, the, 254 Political agitators, 160 Political revolution, 148 Politics, 145 Port Antonio, 229 Royal, 6, 15 of Spain, 251, 253 Princestown, 255 Railway, 165 Revivalist meetings, Jamaican, 70 Rio Cobra, 137 Roseau, 250 Rose Hall, 230 St. Kitts, 251 St. Lucia, 247 Salomon, President, 263