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Title: The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon E. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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uin and St. Georges (12.30 p.m.), and on Friday at5.30 a.m., calling at Sauteurs, Victoria, and Gouyave. OnSaturday a steamer leaves for Requin at 7 a.m., reachingthere at 9.30 a.m. and returning at 12 noon. A steamer plies weekly between St. Georges and Carriacou(6 p.m.), leaving St. Georges on Thursday (12 noon) andcalling at Gouyave, Victoria and. Sauteurs en route, andreturning from Carriacou on Friday. This steamer con-nects at Hillsborough with a mail boat from St. Vincentvia the Grenadines. Time and fares : FROM ST. GEORGES To Hours. First Class. Second Class. Single. Return. Single. Return. Gouyave Victoria Sauteurs Carriacou Requin Grenville 3*6 2* 5. d. 2 0 3 0 4 06 6 3 06 0 5. d. 3 0 4 66 0 10 04 69 0 5. d.1 0 1 6 2 6 4 01 6 3 6 s. d. 1 6 2 6 3 66 02 65 3 SPORTS. The Grenada Cricket Club has a very pic-turesque ground a quarter of a mile from St. Georges, wherecricket and lawn-tennis are played. At Grande Ance Bay,which is reached by boat in fifteen minutes from the GRENADA
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*^l£f *&!Ai SAO* ^ sa <o sj 4 W, IS te h 4 A Plan of the Carenage, Grenada, in the Year 1700This plan, which is reproduced from the Nouveau Voyageaux Isles de 1Amerique, by Pere Labat, shows at E the site ofthe original French town Port Louis, on a strip of land extendingacross the mouth of the lagoon, which was then a lake, and isnow an arm of the sea. 254 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES Carenage, there is a fine stretch of sandy beach, fromwhich the bathing is perfect, while a delightful freshwaterdouche can be indulged in at the Spout in the Carenage.The roads are too hilly for cycling to any extent. Boatscan be hired at the Carenage. The sea fishing is good, andthe rivers can be fished for mullet, brochet, sard, and mud-fish. The natives use avocado pears, green grasshoppers,red bananas, and sometimes worms and cockroaches as bait.The Grenada Race Club, founded in 1895, holds annualmeetings on a course at Grande Ance, and the St. AndrewsRacing Club (1897) holds flat races

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