Identifier: withspeakercanno00moor (find matches)
Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950
Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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black bodies in the water.After much effort he succeeded in getting aboard andpresenting himself to the Speaker. We found him to bethe American Consul. He hailed from Michigan; hadbeen in the island but six months, and labored under thedisadvantage of speaking no French. With true Westernbreeziness, however, he had arranged for our receptionby the Governor. A representative of the English cablecompany also presented himself to Speaker Cannon, andplaced himself at the disposal of the Congressional party.This was another of the courtesies for which we hadoccasion to remember our friend, Morrell of St. Thomas. Through a long line of chattering negroes with highsoprano voices, and of various tones of color from lightmulatto to shades of bronze and black, we were landed. It 68 WITH spe:aker cannon through the: tropics. was the funniest situation we had yet confronted. Gesticu-lating violently and talking in a high key, in a language wecould not understand, the natives let us know they had
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MARKET PLACE, FORT DE FRANCE. hacks to hire and souvenirs to sell. The latter consistedof cheap stuff—relics of fhe volcanic eruption, twisted nails,melted glasss, bits of iron, broken crockery, etc., all showing THE ISLAND oiP Martinique:. 69 evidence of having been subjected to great heat. They alsooffered birds, bananas and other tropical fruit, but lostmany sales because they would not take American money.For one rusty piece I offered a dime, which was refused.The vender wanted French money only. When the Speaker, with McKinley, Sherman, Tawneyand others, reached the little iron enclosure around thestatue of Josephine, the kodakers got busy. Theijnianceuvers to get Mr. Cannon in a good light greatl)interested the natives. Men and women grouped aboutand followed us wherever we went. The greater part ofthe population were tall and straight, and the women werenot unattractive. Accustomed to carrying burdens on theirheads they had a graceful carriage, and their rich bronzecomplexion

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