Evening star

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city are inhabited by Negro peasants

whose mode of life has changed little

since the days of the buccaneer,

Henry Morgan.

Summer cruise ships stop at Haiti,

where the Negro population threw off

the rule of Prance during the French

Revolution and where King Chris

topbe built his colossal citadel on a

mountain overlooking the sea, and

thread their way among the colorful

Virgin Islands, visiting St. Thomas,

St. Croix, St. Martin and other islands.

Southward lie Guadeloupe, Dominica

and Martinique. Dominica is one of

the British Leeward Islands, discovered

by Columbus on a Sunday and named

in honor of the day, while the other

tow islands, of volcanic origin, are

French possessions, rich in scenic

beauty.

Martinique was the birthplace of

Bnpress Josephine, Napoleon's first

wife, and contains the volcano Pele,

which erupted in 1902 and wiped out

St. Pierre, the Pompeii of the West

Indies, once a city of Incredible beauty.

Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad lie

near the northern coast of South

America and frequently are visited by

criuse ships. Tourists also find much

of interest in the Guianas—British,

Dutch and French—the only European

colonies on the mainland of South

America.

T'RAVZLERS to the West Indies

often visit the ports along the

coast of Venezuela. La Ghiayra, witn

its background of lofty mountains, is

connected with Caracas, the capital,

by a fine motor highway which twists

upward for 3,000 feet along a mute

of incomparable/ beauty.

Westward along the old Spanish

Main lies the Island of Curacao and

the ports of Colombia on the main

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1938). Washington, D.C., 1938-06-19. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1938-06-19/ed-1/?sp=77

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1938-06-19.