Excerpt from Isles of Spice and Palm Here the arrival of the weekly or monthly steamer is an event and the commercialism and civilization of the North have not yet destroyed the picturesque and primitive ways or disturbed the customs, tradi tion and life Of centuries long past. By days of travel these islands are close at hand; by customs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.