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CHAPTER II. JAMAICA—TOWN.
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Were it arranged by Fate that my future residence should be in Jamaica, I should certainly prefer the life of a country mouse. The town mice, in my mind, have but a bad time of it. Of all towns that I ever saw, Kingston is perhaps, on the whole, the least alluring2, and is the more absolutely without any point of attraction for the stranger than any other.
It is built down close to the sea—or rather, on the lagune which forms the harbour, has a southern aspect, and is hot even in winter. I have seen the thermometer considerably3 above eighty in the shade in December, and the mornings are peculiarly hot, so that there is no time at which exercise can be taken with comfort. At about 10 a.m., a sea breeze springs up, which makes it somewhat cooler than it is two hours earlier—that is, cooler in the houses. The sea breeze, however, is not of a nature to soften4 the heat of the sun, or to make it even safe to walk far at that hour. Then, in the evening, there is no twilight5, and when the sun is down it is dark. The stranger will not find it agreeable to walk much about Kingston in the dark.
Indeed, the residents in the town, and in the neighbourhood of the town, never walk. Men, even young men, whose homes are some mile or half-mile distant from their offices, ride or drive to their work as systematically6 as a man who lives at Watford takes the railway.
Kingston, on a map—for there is a map even of Kingston—looks admirably well. The streets all run in parallels. There is a fine large square, plenty of public buildings, and almost a plethora7 of places of worship. Everything is named with propriety8, and there could be no nicer town anywhere. But this word of promise to the ear is strangely broken when the performance is brought to the test. More than half the streets are not filled with houses. Those which are so filled, and those which are not, have an equally
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alluring
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plethora
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abruptly
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mid
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wade
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dilatory
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decency
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metropolis
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naval
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perspiration
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pandemonium
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complimentary
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tavern
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feverishly
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miserable
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abode
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landlady
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custody
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patriotic
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sedulous
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craftiest
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