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Updated: June 14, 2025
How shall I describe everything the little townlet, for I cannot call it town, nestling beneath the bare hills that we had been looking at so longingly all the morning the scattered wooden boxes of houses, with ragged roods of scrubby ground between them the tussocks of brown grass the huge wide-leafed flax, with its now seedy stem, sometimes 15 or 16 feet high, luxuriant and tropical-looking the healthy clear-complexioned men, shaggy-bearded, rowdy-hatted, and independent, pictures of rude health and strength the stores, supplying all heterogeneous commodities the mountains, rising right behind the harbour to a height of over a thousand feet the varied outline of the harbour now smooth and sleeping.
Three hours later the "Yankee" dropped anchor off Mole St. Nicholas, a Haytian seaport brought into some prominence through the location of a cable station. Mole St. Nicholas is a little collection of tropical-looking houses set among palm trees at the foot of a large hill, which in places aspires to the dignity of a mountain.
The melons were ripe now, and it was a pleasure to push aside the coarse leaves and find beneath them the tropical-looking fruit with the pretty network tracery covering the gray-green rind. The grape-vines, too, were things of beauty, hanging full of great white, yellow, red, and purple clusters. The tomatoes gleamed scarlet and purple-red thickly among the plants.
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