In Sugar Cane Land

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This travelogue volume was published in 1890 and takes the reader on a long cruise from England through the West Indies.

Chapters:

Excuse for the Entire Work — Advice — About Neptune — The
Doctor — Night in the Channel — My Frenchman; his Dog;
his Baby; his Bottle of Champagne

Seafaring Birds — The Captain of the Tiber — Fiddles and Sea-
legs — The Ocean settles down — Concerning Lifebelts — The
' Whist Fiend ' — ' Captain Cuttle ' — ' Peckham Rye ' —
Sundry Ladies — Food — The Refrigerating Apparatus

Divine Service and Fire Drill — The Baths — Nautical Mathematics
— Interesting Incident with the Purser's Cat — The First
Officer— The Second Officer— The Third Officer; his Feat
with a Haytian Man-of-war — Flying-fish — Unpleasant Inci-
dent involving My Nose and Another — The Concert

Conscience — A Yarn from the Captain — Another Yarn of Him—
Steam — Cloud Harmonies and an After-glow — A Man of
One Idea — Exciting Incident with a Barque — The Whist-
Fiend and the pretty Creole — Moonlight to Dawn — Carlisle
Bay

Barbados — Lighters and Watermen — Jane Ann Smith — Our New Ship— The Careenage — 'Bimshire' — The Ice-house — A West Indian Street Scene — Complication with a Mango Tree, a
Black Man and a Yellow Dog

The Dignity Ball Band — Diving-boys — A Trip to the 'Crane'
— Sugar-cane — Bananas — Bread-fruit — Calabash and Fran-
gipanni — A Weird Garment — I differ with Peckham Rye —
The Emancipation — At a Tropical Hotel — Green Cocoa-Nuts
— The Pig and the Parasol

The Cocktail Club — The Model Man — Twins for our Second
Officer — Newspapers — The True Story of Captain Cook —
Forest Harmonies — A Rosy Dawn — St. Vincent — Concern-
ing Yellow Caribs and Ethiopians — A Whale — Arrowroot —
Advice to the Traveller touching Kew Gardens

Rhoda and the Archbishop — The Panorama of the Grenadines,
Leviathan and Others -- The Treasure's Gun — Early Glimpses
of Grenada — Nutmeg Culture — Our New Port — Richmond
Hill — A Lunatic Asylum and a Prison — We land

The History of Grenada — Alas ! poor Caribs — A Busy Market-
place — The Fruit Garden — A Black Family Party — The
Doctor prescribes — Grand Etang — An Ethiopian Goddess —
West Indian Homes; their Dangers — Coolie Travellers —
The Death's Head's Theory of Sleep

Into the Gulf of Paria — A Veteran Vessel — Port of Spain — John
Crow — History of Trinidad— A Pitch Lake — Hint to the
Great Powers — ' Pepper-pot ' — A West Indian Barber —
Botanical Gardens — The Treasure's Shittim Tree — Flora —
Hornets — A Murder Trial — The Authoress and the Norwego-
Spaniard

The Wounded Leg — Off to the Interior. Peckhara Rye and the
Head Guard — The Cascaladoo — Among the Plantations — St.