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The sunlight faded from the tops of the mountains. It had vanished long ago from the weary and de-
siccated palm trees of the square, and the kites huddling among the branches were almost invisible. Two
Negroes, returning laden with baskets from the market in Kingston, crossed the road, their cigarettes
glowing in the falling dusk. It was time to move on.
[1]
In case a pious student of such disasters should read celestial partiality into his exemption, it must be
remembered that a condemned murderer was the only survivor of the eruption of the Montagne Pélée in
Martinique.
Another notable survivor of the Jamaican tragedy was a French Huguenot called Galdy, who was swal-
lowed up by the earth and then thrown forth again into the whirlpool.
[2]
Now Mrs. Hepher.
[3]
Journal of a West Indian Proprietor.
[4]
The
Jamaica Handbook
states that 2,500 acres were granted.
[5]
Xan Fielding.
Six Poems, Cyprus
, 1946.