the Five Islands and the islands of the Boca, or mouth of the Gulf of Paria. These picturesque islands, Diego, Casper Grande, and Mono, have lovely little harbors and many summer cottages belonging to the residents of Port of Spain. There are fine views here of the eastern end of the Andes. The next morning Admiral Douglas called. I had planned to go in the yacht up the San Juan River, Venezuela, among the mountains near the great northern wall of South America. But I learned from both British and American admirals that it would not be possible to do so, because of the excited state of the country. RETURN FROM TRINIDAD FEBRUARY 14th, at 10 A.M., we began our homeward course, on which we visited many more ports than on our way south. Our first visit was at St. George, Grenada, where we had stopped on our way south. This is an ideally romantic place. The town is in two parts, connected by a tunnel which runs through a cliff on which the old fort stands. The north harbor is an open roadstead. We dined and spent the night at Government House, from which there are charming views of the south harbor and coast, mountains and valleys, and drove into the interior up to Grand Etang, a lake in an ancient crater among the clouds. I took the Governor, Sir Robert B. Llewellyn, and his daughters, in the Sea Fox, to the island of Cariacou, forty miles distant, and which they had not before visited. They spent one night on the yacht and returned with us to St. George. Cariacou is one of the Grenadines, and has 6500 inhabitants. We went to Lady Llewellyn's ball, for which Admiral Douglas had sent H.M. cruiser Retribution. Captain Bostwick, of our Club, with his wife and their two young children and friends, arrived in the Sultana as we were about to leave. They were all enjoying their cruise. We then sailed among many of the eastern Grenadines, past the Soufrière St. Vincent, the Soufrière St. Lucia, and the stupendous Pitons, to Castries, St. Lucia, which is the Gibraltar of the West Indies, and the great West Indian coaling-station. The coaling is done by women, who carry soft, dusty coal in baskets on their heads. There are new and very important earthworks, also model barracks and hospitals on the north shore of the harbor. This picture may give valuable hints to our Regatta Committee. It is of a race between Castries yachts, which passed close to the Sea Fox. The yachtsmen had to let go their sheets often to keep from upsetting, and to bail the little coffins in which they sailed. DIAMOND ROCK FROM Castries we sailed for Martinique, one mile south of which we passed close to Diamond Rock, a very remarkable little island, about 800 feet square, 574 feet high, and with precipitous sides. The rock was formerly rated as a sloopof-war on the books of the British Admiralty. In January, 1804, Sir Samuel Hood laid his seventy-four gun ship, Centaur, close alongside this rock, to the top of which he made fast a hawser on which was a traveler. He then hauled three long twenty-fours and two eighteens to the top, and left them in charge of Lieutenant Maurice, with one hundred and twenty men and boys, with ammunition, pro |