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per summit is encircled by a terrace or shore platform, the bluff descending without interruption down to the sea, except at the northerly point of the Island.
From an elevation of 15 or 20 feet above sea level, at its extremity, or west of what is known as North Point, the height rises at Lulu Bay, (the shipping point), to 60 feet, and at the southeastern end the Island rises to the height of 65 feet. The north side forms a low rocky bed, and in many places slopes down to the level of the sea, until it terminates against the side of the Cliff of "North Point."
The limestone found upon the Island of Navassa is very hard, and clinks under the hammer when struck. In sailing around the Island, the lowest beds above the level of the sea present themselves as a compact rock made of carbonate of lime.
THE RIOT.
The eighteen colored laborers indicted by the United States Grand Jury, under Section 5323 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for rioting on the Island of Navassa on the 14th of September, 1889, are George S. Key, Henry Jones alias "Texas Shorty," Cæsar Fisher, Edward Smith alias "Devil," Stephen Peters, Charles H. Smith, Charles H. Davis, James H. Robinson alias "Snow," Alfred Jones, James Philips, Edmund Francis alias "Blue Ball," Edward Woodfork, James Johnson, Alfred Brown, Norman Wooster alias "Juggler," Moses Williams alias "Dakota," Amos Lee and James Tascar.
The indictment is in five counts. The first count charges George S. Key with the murder of James Mahon with a pistol, and the other seventeen as accessories before the act; the second count charges Cæsar Fisher and Henry Jones with the murder of
