On the contrary, she has
been the theme of praise, not only for the admirable foresight with
which she avoided the sugar crisis, so disastrous to her sister
islands, but also for the pluck and persistence shown in sustaining
herself through an agricultural emergency brought about by commercial
reverses, whereby the steady march of her sons in self-advancement
was only checked for a time, but never definitively arrested. In
fine, as regards every branch of civilized employment pursued there,
the good people of Grenada hold their own so well and worthily that
any show of patronage, even from a source more entitled to
confidence, would simply be a piece of obtrusive kindness, not
acceptable to any, seeing that it is required by none.
BOOK II: TRINIDAD / TRINIDAD AND REFORM+
[53] Mr. Froude, crossing the ninety miles of the Caribbean Sea lying
between Grenada and Trinidad, lands next morning in Port of Spain,
the chief city of that "splendid colony," as Governor Irving, its
worst ruler, truly calls it in his farewell message to the
Legislature. Regarding Port of Spain in particular, Mr. Froude is
positively exuberant in the display of the peculiar qualities that
distinguish him, and which we have already admitted.
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