A seasoned Boston traveller boards the steamship Vigilancia for the Caribbean and the coasts of South America. He describes St. Thomas, Martinique and Barbados, then the great capitals of the continent, with notes on their markets, churches, politics and the people he met, written in the confident manner of an 1890s tourist.
Gilded Age travel writing of interest to historians of the Caribbean and Latin America; its racial descriptions are of their time. Download the free EPUB.