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Show 9 SPOT IN THE WEST INDIES GROUP WHICH HAS GREAT CHARM. Location and History Have Done Much to Make the Little Isle a Conspicuous Con-spicuous Object in Southern South-ern Waters. Jamaica has been styled by the Englishman the "Egypt of the west." The land of the palms and bananas, of r - , who sleeps his last sleep in the historic parish church of Kingston a church in which is many a record of England's imperial greatness, although the building build-ing itself is almost a total wreck, a painful memory of the earthquake ol two years ago. The West Indies always possess undying un-dying fascination and interest for the lover of romance. When you stand upon one of those beautiful little Jamaican Ja-maican silver-sand beaches, girt with gracefully-bending palm trees, and gaze out upon the blue horizon, yoo find yourself almost unconsciously thinking of dear old R. M. Ballan-tyne's Ballan-tyne's "Coral Island." or W. H. G. Kingston's "Three Admirals," and the glimpse you obtain of a white sail gliding glid-ing and glooming In I he far distance reminds you of some little caravel of Elizabeth's long-dead splendid and spaeious days. And then there are the flowers and foliage, the palms and trees and ferns to reward one for a ramble inland. There is nothing 1o equal, much less to surpass, (he superb flowers of a Jamai- f'Zh '': - "' , . :.' ul 1 'i '' The Old Market Place. Jamaica. can roadside. It i fragrance and beauty all the way. So, whether upon the shore or inland, one Is always rewarded re-warded with objects of inlerest. Kingston Seen from Rock Fort. eternal sunshine and brilliant seas, the land of romance and story, is what that little isle in the Atlantic means to its inhabitants and those who visit there. Jamaica is full of hjstory and romance. ro-mance. The traveler realizes this when, having slid down the ocean through myriad shadows and sunshine, and chased the glittering flying-fish and outrun the happy dolphins, he glides at last alongside of Port Royal, green and tropic-looking and redolent with memories of that redoubtable buccaneer. buc-caneer. Ca) tain Kidd; where Drake and Hawkins used to put in for shelter when pursued by some mighty Spanish Span-ish gaileon which now lies, laden with treasure, in that beautiful land-locked harbor. And what Mr. John Henderson says in his delightful "Jamaica," from an Englishman's point of view, at least. Is so true. "So far as we are concerned," he writes, "the history of (he Indies is a medley of romance, the romance of British greatness. There we laid 'the foundations of our empire: the Caribbean Carib-bean sea is the font of the temple of our greatness." And of this fact urave old Archd'-a-con Downer, the rector of Kingston, reminds re-minds you when he points out to you the burial place of Admiral Benbow |