The greatest of the Greek tragic poets has beautifully associated the sea with mental calm : "Mind serene like the calm of the sea." That this mental calm is sometimes disturbed by seasickness is because of a strange want of logical perception. The diurnal revolution of the earth carries us at the equator a thousand miles per hour. We move more than a thousand miles a minute in our journey around the sun. Compared to these rapid movements, the motion of the waves is ridiculously small. To permit one's self to be excited by such small motions is absurd. Aconcagua, 6 A Act of 1867, 33 Alert, 27 American goods, 29 American statesmen, 30, 32 Andes, 14 Annexation, 22 Antigua, II Ariadne, 13, 27 Bermudas, 36 Black man's government, 21, 25, 31 Black people, 25, 30 Black Republic, 31 Black troops, 30 Boston Fruit Company, 27 Bostwick, Captain, 15 Bottom, 22 British Admiral, 13 British Admiralty, 16 Armored globular battery, 17 Browning, Captain, 13 Aymé, Consul, 20 B C Baltimore, 7, 36 Bananas, 28, 29 Cannibalism, 26 Canoes, 24 Caracas, 5 Battery, 17 Battle, 20 Battle-ships, 8, 11 Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, 20 Cariacou, 15 Basse Terre, St. Kitts, 10 Caribbean Sea, 4, 5, 13, 25, 32, 36 Carib Islands, 19 Carter, Sir Gilbert, 35 Beekman, James William, 13 Casper Grande, 14 Bennett, ex-Commodore, 35 Castries, 15, 16 Cathedral, 23 Cherry Garden, 27 Chesapeake, 36 Cienfuegos, Cuba, 30, 34 Cocoa plantations, 13 Coghlan, Rear-Admiral, 8 Colonial problems, 4 De Grasse, 20 Denmark, 22 Diamond Rock, 16, 17 Diego, 14 Disaster at St. Pierre, 18 Douglas, Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald, 13, 14, 15 E Colonial systems, 4 Colonies, 20, 31 Earthquake, 23 Emory, Captain, II Colored government, 5, 21, England, 20, 31 |