For Jacinta (Illustrated)

For Jacinta: The scenes are laid in the Canary Islands and off the West coast of Africa, which the author has pictured with appalling vividness. Jacinta is the daughter of a rich English merchant in Las Palmas, and being the belle of the place, as well a motherless and only child, she is just a little bit spoiled and inclined to have things her own way. The particular object of her intentions is a young Englishman, the sobrecargo of a little steamer that traded around the islands of the Can...