The Peruvians At Home

e may be found. Compared with his more serious brother, the white man, he is thoughtless as a child. Now and then the coalers would stop working, and the whole gang join in some such chorus as the following :? " He is a hang-dog, Johnny, Aha! aha ! aha ! aha ! But him don't hang the old man "? the " old man" possibly meaning the stern arm of law and justice. The noise of coaling, varied by the songs of the coalers, continued all night and all the following day, which was Sunday. The passage from St. Thomas to Colon was made in the steamship Corsica, a ship of smaller tonnage than the Nile, and offering less comfort and convenience to passengers. Touching at Jackmel, the port of Hayti?whose inhabitants are said to live in a chronic state of revolution, but were fortunately at that time unusually quiet?to put down the mails and a single passenger, the Corsica steamed on to Port Royal in Jamaica, where she was overhauled by the health inspector. Kingston Harbour lies three milesio KINGSTON. further up the Straits ; it is formed by a narrow strip of land projecting straight out from the mainland, and then curving round and running parallel for some length, thus providing one of the safest of the many natural harbours to be found in the West Indies. A fellow-passenger, Mr. Bagot Smith, paymaster in her Majesty's forces, now returning to his duties at Kingston, offered the hospitalities of his temporary home, by which the writer profited, for so good ...