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Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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negroes, their feet in the gutterand their chins high up in the air. Squatting on the curb,with crude razors in their hands, were three coolies, eachwith his hand in the black mans hair, while he scraped awaywith the razor at the stubby beard. There was no lather,no brush, only a deft movement of the fingers, pushing thesharp blade upward, downward and across—no looking-glass, no tonic, no nothing. It was about as near nature asany savage of the primeval period might want it to be. Xook, I said to Mann, look! Did you ever see such abarber-shop ? Thats nothing, was the laconic reply, in some of theseislands they break bottles and shave with the sharp edges ofglass. It being up to me, I escorted my objector friend to anearby street fakir and purchased him a cake of nativesorghum, mixed with peanuts—which, by the way, he verymuch enjoyed. We are very prosperous in Trinidad.From what little we had seen of the business activity ofPort of Spain, we were inclined to agree with His Excel-
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COCOA TREE, TRINIDAD. THE ISIvAND OP* TRINIDAD. 123 lency, Sir Henry Moore Jackson, K.C.M.G., when, stand-ing in the center of the magnificent reception room of Gov-ernment House, he welcomed Speaker Cannon and our Con-gressional party in the afternoon. We had driven up inopen carriages from the busy capital of the island ; had passedunder the long lines of royal palm trees; had commentedupon the prolific bearing of the cocoa plant, nestling in themoisture under the great forest trees, and had marveled gen-erally at the tropical beauty of our surroundings. Govern-ment House, a large and spacious structure, architecturallybeautiful, rested in a great bank of ornamental trees, palms,ferns and shrubs at the foot of a range of hills, a half-hoursdrive from Port of Spain. A great savannah, enlivened in thedaytime by polo players and crack cricketers, and illuminedat night by myriads of fireflies, stretched out from thegrounds of the Governors home like the great mall whichreaches toward th

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