Identifier: roundblackmansga00colv (find matches)
Title: Round the black man's garden
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Colvile, Zélie Isabelle Richaud de Préville, lady
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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instour ship that she was disabled, and had to takeshelter within the harbour. Suddenly there wasa terrific crash : a cable had snapped against thestrength of the rushing tide dashing on the rocksnot many yards from us. The engines worked totheir full power trying to keep the ship off theshore. It certainly was a very critical moment,but luckily the wind was not so strong as is usuallythe case at this point; if it had been, she would cer-tainly have been knocked to pieces against the rocks,for her engines could never have withstood the forceof both wind and tide combined. Terror was im-printed on many faces, mothers clasping their chil-dren, but the nuns were calm and composed, de-voutly telling their beads. Monsieur de A^ilers wasgetting decidedly anxious about the women—havingbeen in several shipwrecks, he knew how fatal a panicwas—when, after a tremendous thump and rise, whichnearly threw us ofi our feet, the Amazone seemed toshake herself together, and was afloat again. It was
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95 a great relief not to hear that continual crash at shortintervals, which ended by getting on ones nerves. We struck the rock at 9.55 a.m., and it was 2.30P.M. before we steamed to our anchorage at themouth of the Baie des Cailloux Blancs, narrowedat its entrance by the promontory of Diego on ourright, and the slightly projecting coast-line on whichthe settlement of Antiserane is built. On the former—a high table-topped mass of rock indented at itsfoot by little sandy bays—stands the hospital, forwhich its breezy heights and the good water-supplyto be found there make it very suitable. Thelatter—at a much lower level—presents a flat anduninteresting sky-line, broken here and there bythe red-tiled-roofed barracks and other Governmentbuildings: these are continued down the steep slope,in which the plateau ends, to the sea-shore, which isconnected with the table-land by good zigzag roads.Opposite us on the shore were wharfs, coal-sheds,workshops, and piles of stores; while fart

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