He described them as virtuous, shrewd, simple, healthy folk, retaining, in spite of the tropic sun, the same clear white and red complexions which their ancestors brought from Holland two hundred years ago--a proof, among many, that the white man need not degenerate in these isles.
Saba has, like most of these islands, its 'Somma' like that of Vesuvius; an outer ring of lava, the product of older eruptions, surrounding a central cone, the product of some newer one.

But even this latter, as far as I could judge by the glass, is very ancient.

Little more than the core of the central cone is left.

The rest has been long since destroyed by rains and winds.

A white cliff at the south end of the island should be examined by geologists.