台灣價值說/莊峻華

台灣價值說/莊峻華

達拉斯之保羅兄，屢提台灣價值說，約是某電視名嘴主持，詢問柯市長和

蔡總統，保羅兄並未提到兩位如何回答，但以我之觀察，兩位執政之性格

，我相信都是務實之，追求生存，行有餘力，則以學文，治國，治市，和

治家之道理一致，都需要鞏固內在，儒家曰，格物，致知，修身，齊家，

治國，然後平天下，或曰天下平，在現在之中國以為，釣魚台是固有領土

，台灣是我的，南海是神聖的，今日新聞一則，有一艘中國科學研究船，

終於抵達南極洲，記者作者開始調侃中國，又開始要神聖固有領土之說矣

。

民主自由法治和人權，是台灣之價值，我聽聞柯市長許多演講和辯論，蔡

總統在選前華府與中國通面談持論，都如出一轍，我們平民持家政原則在

此，柯在台北市，全天二十四小時，一週七日，全年三百六十五天，都有

人嚴格觀察，他之所作所為，都需要合乎他的理想，他想將他的理想，從

台北市，推廣到台灣全國，習進平主席，非常重視這位柯市長，這是中國

台灣專家之看法。台北市在進步中，遠雄將迅速破產，除非供出內幕，要

求法官赦免，馬英九和郝龍斌，都將面對國民黨自訂之法律，這是法治，

這是台灣價值，絕對不是習進平在中國說的算。

保羅兄對新潮流和段宜康有意見，我深覺兩者，或是一派，在對抗國民黨

中國人統治台灣，都有很重大之貢獻，新潮流大老，也是台獨理論家，我

們南投小同鄉林濁水，中年之後也十分落魄，段宜康在此任不分區立委任

滿，就業應該也是他的家庭價值問題，扁總統受非人道之迫害，罪魁禍首

是，馬英九，國民黨法院，國民黨法律，絕對不是蔡總統，新潮流，和段

宜康等人，他們份量不足輕重，請扁總統再多保重身體，讓台灣選民，今

年再唾棄國民黨中國人一次，然後習主席也死心踏地，承認中國人在台灣

已經絕望，台灣已經不是中國殖民地，超過一百二十二年，我在全求旅行

，從來不曾看過分離如此久之殖民地，又合併於殖民者，香港是例外，香

港不講獨立，不講香港價值，但仍有希望，香港獨立，有我的祝福，還有

中國之真正解放，解放於中國共產黨之奴隸，有我深深之祝福。

Adopted daughters at ship Dawn/Carlos Pueblo

Adopted daughters at ship Dawn/Carlos Pueblo

After adopting 45 daughters trip twice on Jade, I grasped my opportunity on

Dawn by adopting more than 50 daughters on last trip on board. I have enjoyed

So much ; therefore, I am going back to Dawn tomorrow in Tampa, Florida for

my third trip to the western Caribbean, Mexico, Belize, and Honduras, etc. I love

these daughters like that of my love to beautiful flowers, i.e. roses on the

Queen Mary’s Garden at the Regent’s; the city rose garden of Buenos Aires,

Argentina; Queen Elizabeth II Rose Garden in Vancouver, Canada; the city hall

Rose garden at Malaga, Spain; the flood control zone of garden lots of River Main

Of Frankfurt, Germany and the home garden at the old East Berlin under the Wall

Monument. I love flowers all my life and are like the cherry blossom, dahlia, peony,

camellia, and rhododendron, etc. It is a virtue that they are beautiful, very polite,

and working so hard to their job requirement. I don’t see that in current day U.S.

and my familiar society of Taiwan and China.

Dorotea was from Bosnia and Horzegovina, a sorry current day history in the 90’s.

I mentioned to her what I found after encountered several handsome Serbian

staff on Jade and my study of that part of Balkans. She referred me to Marco, a

well learned Serbian waiter on board for some history lessons. We did have two

lessons before my disembark at Tampa, Florida. We’ll continue when I embark at

Tampa tomorrow. At her fitness center department, I have had several daughters

this time around, Tracey from Johannesburg, South Africa and I mentioned the

protea which was originally from South Africa and spread to Hawaii and Florida.,

Nicole of London, England that I asked her about Harris Tweet Island., Sinclair from

Ocho Rio, Jamaica where I just visited; Alana from Ireland that I mentioned my visit

of Dublin in 2016 with great memory; Pauline from U.K. and Micaela from Zimbabwe.

They are a very friendly group of internationals.

 At the casino, I started with Maria, the dealer, and then, Joanna a cash girl who could

write her name in Kanji and I instantly knew that she spoke my native tone of Amoy.

Jeralinda was a cash girl also and Ncube was a dealer from Zimbabwe we did discuss

the coup recently. I met her husband, my son-in-law, Culeen another dealer on board

and their fellow countryman of a supervisor rank. I also met a supervisor gentleman,

Rio of Goa, India. He trained Joymilla, my dealer daughter of Jade from NE part of India,

at Goa before serve to the ship. Goa was a previous colony of Portugal likes Macao of

Hong Kong served as a gambling resort of India or that part of the world. I informed him

That Joymilla would go to Pearl in New Orleans on the next assignment and then Alaska

in the summer.

黎明號郵輪愛女/莊峻華

黎明號郵輪愛女/莊峻華

繼寶玉號四十五位愛女後，我又在黎明號認收五十位以上之愛女，這是我

經常郵輪旅行，最感辛福之處，郵輪上之愛女，年輕美貌，工作努力，有

禮貌，誠懇，敬業樂群，真是書本上曰之美徳，我在船上觀看愛女工作，

把幾十年，全球賞花之喜愛，暫時擱置，例如，華府賞櫻，倫敦皇家公園

櫻花，都柏林聖格林櫻花，瑪莉女皇玫瑰花園，依莉莎白二世玫瑰花園，

阿根廷市立玫瑰花園，瑪拉加市府玫瑰花園，法蘭克福緬茵河畔家庭花園

，柏林圍牆下古東徳社區家庭花園，玫瑰花，菊花，牡丹花，大理花等，

西雅圖之石楠花，我認為郵輪愛女，就像美麗花朵，郵輪是一片花海，中

國古典小說曰，羣芳競艷，有人將果蔬花列譜，我就依次介紹愛女，是為

近代羣芳譜。

上船後稍釋休息，掛上兩支相機，一尼泊爾布包掛在皮帶上，船上走動，七

層甲板，遇見多羅蒂雅，健身房，東歐巴斯尼亞，我在寶玉號遇見幾位瑟比

亞俊男，拜讀一些當地歴史，寫一些心得，於是她推薦船上一位瑟比亞青年

瑪口，讓我上了兩節當地歴史，第三節問到依凡安徳瑞奇之徳瑞基石橋，已

經下船，無慮，明日出發再上黎明號。後來，我在七層大廳和十一層本部健

身房，續認多位愛女，妮可兒蘇格蘭人，家住倫敦，我和她談起哈理斯特威

特島，她說從愛丁堡巴士行約四小時路程，辛克列耳是愛爾蘭人，住都柏林

外圍，我和她談到三一學院和聖格林之櫻花，她說應該走出都柏林，還有一

位是達徳瑞安，是牙買加八河人，認識許多寶玉號親人，也認識這些瑟比亞

俊男，她介紹我們寶玉號和珍珠號，從邁阿密港和紐澳良港出發，四日夜之

包船業務，多半是熱門暢銷樂團歌星和歌迷，由特別旅行社包辦，我正懷疑

其市場來源，但寶玉號愛女卡拉，確實提到包船行事。後來又收兩位，英國

之寶琳，和非洲詹巴為之米開爾，南非約翰尼斯堡之翠西，我們談到南非之

普洛逖亞花，夏威夷和佛州均生產，一朵三十年前，在休市特別超市，要價

八十美金。

在賭場也認上多位女兒，瑪麗亞，二十一點發牌者，非洲詹巴為之習安久，

剛好其夫坤林也在，一位便女婿，還有國內兩位六歲孫男，四歲孫女，我們

談到該國剛發生之政變，一位該國賭場經理，前來聊天，他對蔣介石很崇拜

，說是學校教導，也有一位經理，印度果阿人，寶玉號愛女喬依蜜勒，在果

阿島受訓後始上船服務，果阿為葡萄牙屬地，1961年歸還印度。還有喬安娜

，漢名戴恆安，祖父教漢字，潔若琳達，兩位都是換幣小姐，還有賭場帶位

，潔莎，與寶玉號兩帶位，蕾和菈蓮，都曾同事過，非常親切。

為柯教授市長爭辯/莊峻華

為柯教授市長爭辯/莊峻華

前日清晨散步，與鄰居碰面，又談起台北市長柯教授醫師，我必需掛出其

全銜，以示尊重，幾年前，我們為市長激辯，不歡而散，而後彼在遠處見

我，就調頭他去，最近稍有改善，這次又是我惹之禍，又問起柯市長如何

？他說啊眾叛親離，有百分之九十人，都不喜歡他，二十三位主管，都離

職而去，於是我又舉論語老夫子之鄉之賢者好之為例，他又不高興，他是

我高中隔壁班，同時讀論語孟子。回家後，我又舉手機，詢問峻嚴，他看

台灣電視，也問達拉斯保羅兄，他常寄阿扁意見來，兩人都同意，有這麼

一回事，簡余宴局長辭職是近事，有歸罪到柯之辦公室主任，大家都是聰

明人，於是我要他們比較馬英九市長和郝龍斌市長，孰善孰惡？皆曰柯善

，惟不見批評馬郝兩惡。提起定英語為台灣國語，海內外台獨諸公，均不

雀躍，真是費解。

我在美國工作約二十四年，五次被撤職，一次被逼辭職，每次都有原因，

都是違反公司規定和期待目標，一直到最近之十七年，有兩家保險公司，

一直讓我維持契約，繼續服務客戶，始讓我恢復自信，而且一家公司，是

一巨大之產物保險者，一家是官方保險，雖然收入不若當年，但我一直無

需領取退休金，貧窮出身如我者，一份固定收入，是對家庭之責任，何況

是單一收入家庭，所以我不相信辭職是自由意志，當然不是貪贓枉法。

昨夜寫作完畢，連忙翻開台灣政論節目，有講評者，但都不清楚，而且語

焉不詳，柯市長手下，有嚴格紀律要求，不能欺騙他兩次，這是新政風，

尤其是政務官。柯競選辦公室，公佈民調，柯在民調上領先各黨候選人，

而且有餘力，助選其副市長，參選新北市，柯甚至和中國關係，保持良好

，他主張民主自由法治和人權，中國不講，他也不必講一個中國，在中國

和美國眼中，國民黨已潰敗不起。中國統戰部，國台辦不是耳目不靈。

Visiting St. John’s, Antigua/ Carlos Pueblo

Visiting St. John’s, Antigua/ Carlos Pueblo

This old sugar cane land reminds me very much of my childhood hometown of

Puli and Huwei in Formosa. My father used to work at the sugar factories at

both places in the central and central southwest of Taiwan. He used to tell me

that the cane sugar production at that time, Taiwan was behind Cuba and Hawaii

and never mentioned the Caribbean Islands. Japanese developed the sugar

plantation after they occupied Formosa in 1895 with much advanced technology

; however, the European in the Caribbean Islands were much earlier and classical

with some European style left behind for today’s visitors to view. I walked straight

toward the cathedral on the hill through a very busy main street with  streets on

both sides. Like a Lunar New Year scenery in Taiwan, streets were full of frugal

tourists like me not taking excursion program offered by the ships and locals for

the beautiful beaches and coral reef viewing, etc. There were some uniformed

polices with whips to maintain publicity, the British system.

I did walk around some, actually only three or four side streets, to see something

before reaching to the top of the cathedral, an Anglican. It was closed under the

innovation; however, it was open for the tourists’ visit at the front and the main

hall with two nice manners members to receive us. On the church yard outside,

I could view the lovely bay with my binocular and took several pictures. Again, on

my way back to the ship, I walked around the side street again and saw some

bungalow houses similar to some in Houston Height and Montrose area with less

smaller front yard yet still unique and pretty. On the other side of the business

section, a young mother brought a young boy passing by me and the boy said

something in Mandarin to me and I was surprised and learned that he got it

from the computer games.

I missed the Nelson Dockyard, of course, it might not be at the walking distance

from St. John’s downtown. The Island honors his service to the British Empire.

He was here between 1784 and 1787 for the sanction to U.S. and one time in the

early 1800 to pursue French fleet in Caribbean without any catch. He married his

wife from a nearby Nevis Island where I reached later at St. Kitts. At the same

time, Napoleon Bonaparte’s wife Josephine was also a widow from Martinique

Island of the same Lessor Antilles of the Caribbean. I di some reading when I wrote

this journal how Nelson and his British Navy fought the Napoleon’s at that time in

Europe which helps me to have the interest to learn the modern European history

that how French, Spanish, and English fought in the sea and ocean.

初訪安地瓜和巴布達島/莊峻華

初訪安地瓜和巴布達島/莊峻華

安地瓜和巴布達島，都在小安特列群島中，就是郵輪東加勒比海航線，大

安特列群島，指南加勒比海航線，甚至包括北邊之古巴，海地，和多明尼

加共和國，安地瓜為此行第三站，兩島在1981年獨立，但仍屬大英國協，

獨立為大英帝國之大國風度結論，我已經不再詢問，好過於前，抑或惡於

過去，我下船仍舊行軍於老街，參觀英國大公教會，然後就凱旋歸船，至

於美麗沙灘，珊瑚礁海岸，和納爾遜元帥紀念館，均一一錯過。

 老街一切均是老舊，仍然有許多乘客，留在老街徘徊，我依老教堂雙塔，

找到聖約翰大公教主教堂，教堂似在整修，但並無工程進展，是在高崗上

，教堂前墓地上，可以眺望遠處海灣，此島已賴郵輪和觀光業，我懷疑過

去之蔗糖業，琴酒等，尚且存在。我有趣於屋舍建築，老街中住屋，類似

我們休士頓古老社區，社會有變遷，休市老社區，年輕人湧入，老屋拆除

翻新，在此島並不常見，山上富人別墅，則需招車遊覽。

荷瑞秀 納爾遜元帥，早年曾在此島服役三年，娶妻來自附近之娜維斯島地

主寡婦，然後專戰歐美海域，是英帝國海軍英雄人物，我曾三次拜訪他在

格林維治之海軍博物館，倫敦近畿有特拉法格廣場，納爾遜銅像，直聳入

雲霄，他在此服役，主管對美國之禁運，大海戰役中，確是驍勇善戰，我

們小學教科書曰，彼幼年冬日上學，遇大雪而不退，十三歲從軍，四十七

歲戰死海疆，為世人所景仰，，連安地瓜都引以為榮。

Re-visiting St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands/Carlos Pueblo

Re-visiting St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands/Carlos Pueblo

It was in April, 2016 that I visited St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on my way from

Houston across the Atlantic Ocean to Barcelona, Spain. I still remember the town

, shops, and streets of significant. I followed my habit of march toward the right

side of the terminal a nice visitors center was in front of me with familiar flowers.

I walked back to the first row of shops with one particular coffee restaurant at the

end where many tourists gathered for its free WiFi connection. It was very much

different this year with much less guests in compare with last time. At the corner,

there was a Chinese restaurant, Long River I thought the name, where the employee

was beginning for the lunch opening and kitchen chefs were off the vehicle to enter

the restaurant. I checked on the menu posted on the window that the price was high

in compare with Houston’s Chinese restaurants of the same class.

I continued my marching toward the other direction turning left toward the main

highway passing through a 700 ft. sky lift station to a top, Charlotte Amalie. The station

was closed at my time to pass. I turned to that busy high way to visit Pueblo Super

market. The old fruits stand was disappeared and I wondered around several times and

finally asked a lottery lady for the reasons. She said that due to hurricane Harvey and

Maria destroyed the stand and she was not sure the lady owner would come back. I was

hesitated last time due to the high price for a mango. The street passing by several rows

of public housing projects by the foot of hills and I could see there was water still stayed

on the curve that indicated the lack of storm sewer system. Some mango trees were also

disappeared and I was very depressed for not seeing the reminding trees of my childhood.

I kept on moving toward the McDonald’s at the street end. The restaurant closed most part

but a narrow drive in taking out order, of course, no free WiFi connection. I quit internet

while cruising in addition to phone call and television, etc. I have been back to more than

half a century before myself in regard to the communication. I began to turn back toward

the ship by passing by a shopping center with some U.S. chain stores and a local power

company’s service center with long que out to the lobby. A small Chinese Café was there

at the center and I saw several youngsters went in for lunch, obviously from the ship and

I believed were male staff anxiously looking for the oriental food to calm down their stomach.

Later, a Chinese restaurant staff told me that they went to that Long River for a lunch and

Costed them certain U.S. dollars and in exchange to how much in Renmingbi, Chinese currency,

and on my calculation would be the portion of my cruise ticket.

My beloved daughter Lilizerbeth told me that she yelled at me across the street of the Pueblo

and I didn’t notice. I was sorry of myself for my second visiting of the small town after two hurricanes. Most to the lovely scenery like beaches are on the other sides of the mountains.

重返維金群島/莊峻華

重返維金群島/莊峻華

初訪聖湯瑪斯鎮，是在2016年春天，從休士頓穿越大西洋，經邁阿密港到

達美屬維金群島，這也是1898年美西戰爭之結局，維金群島一直未退出美

國，美國也一直不知所措，下船後小鎮店面前，有一整潔美麗之庭院設計，

我的習慣逛老街，從右邊開始，沿大街方向，經過村落超市，到麥當勞店折

回，此島美麗之海灘，應該是在山之另邊，我一直不曾拜訪。

海港商店區，我仍憶得，先覓首排咖啡廳，今年生意清淡，連免費使用網路

者渺，轉角一家中國餐廳，員工已經開始準備午餐生意，廚師陸續下車入店

，我看門口菜單價目，心中一震，船上中國青年曰，幾人口饞到此店用餐，

吃下來多少美金，折合多少人民幣，當然，我要算船票之幾分之一。沿大街

走上鎮中心，流龍上山頂觀望台，尚未開張，或是已關閉不可知，附近有一

龍蝦餐廳，中午開張。

走到村落超市廣塲，村落普葉布羅，是我之菲律賓姓，非常親切，我正全神

貫注，尋覓當年廣場前水果菜攤，來回幾次徘徊，終於問到店前一老婦，正

在販賣樂透，彼曰兩次颶風，哈維和瑪麗亞，擊潰攤位，彼懷疑店女主人，

有能力回來，我正在矢神落魄拍照中，不覺愛女呼喚，莉莉莎白宵夜中告知

，在過街呼叫，惟我不覺。

然後，繼續前進，走向麥當勞店方向，依山麓地，有簡易之公寓，路邊有積

水不退，小前院中之芒果株已不見，麥當勞已經關閉，只有開車道訂購，走

回商塲區，幾家連鎖店，有一中國自助餐廳，船員前來用餐，價目表高昂。

旁邊有一電力公司門市部，許多人排龍，我一直有壓迫之感。

沿原路返船，街上許多颶風摧毀痕跡，小鎮正在重建中。

English as the second official language in Taiwan/Carlos Pueblo

English as the second official language in Taiwan/Carlos Pueblo

I say bravo to the policy of putting English as the second official language

in Taiwan. I hope that we can have language classes both equally in the

morning and some other important classes spread to the rest of the day.

I understand that Taiwanese youngster has tremendous disadvantage to

compete with the rest of the world in the job market nowadays. I understand

very well if I have been better in English, I would have been more successful

on my job in insurance in the U.S., of course, some of them as my own of

personality.

We must find quality teachers for the classes and most importantly of

teaching applied English which means after finishing school the student

can utilize what he learns to communicate with the rest of the English

speaking world, their employers and colleagues. We don’t need to get into

classical such as bible reciting and Shakespeare.

I see most of the world nations pay dearly attention to English as an alternative

official language i.e. the British Commonwealth, Caribbean islands of non-British

affiliate, etc. Even the former dominant European power houses, France, Germany

and Netherland fly their school children to London to learn the King’s tone. I ran

into a field day English class at the Hiroshima Castle one lazy afternoon with the

school master and several foreign teachers. Taiwan cannot wait any longer. Don’t

worry about Chinese invasion of Taiwan if Taiwan choose English as the second

official language.   

  

英語為第二國語/莊峻華

英語為第二國語/莊峻華

欣聞台灣蔡政府，著手採用英文為第二國語，真是明智之政策，每年歐洲

非英語系諸國，均需送學童，遠赴英國學習英語，就是我旅行日本廣島城

，也遇見戶外英語教學，許多外國女教師跟隨，各國重視英語教學，主要

是讓國民有跟上時代之能力，連日法徳三工業強國，也不敢掉以輕心，何

況台灣？

英帝國盛世數百年，後有美國跟進，許多就業機會，電腦程式，都以英語

相關設計，英語當第二國語，強勢對強勢，也逼迫北京語質變，讓北京語

改善文法寫作，輿論自由，文學進步，免於退化。台灣人能自如使用英語

後，全世界就業機會高，而且顧主也較尊重員工，比較文明。

過去學習中英文之經驗，台灣學校應求優異英語師資，注重實用，而非不

切實際之復古，要能說寫，以便馬上和世界接軌，不需要背頌聖經，欣賞

莎士比亞，可以等到興趣之到來，無需勉強，英文熟識後，各種科學教科

書，就可直閱。

中國曾說台灣若定英語為第二國語，，則將武力攻打台灣乎？

Visiting Eastern Caribbean Islands/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Eastern Caribbean Islands/Carlos Pueblo

During the winter time, cruise ships from the north hemisphere such as Europe,

Alaska, and Canada, etc. would come back to Florida to join the Caribbean routes

Easter, western, southern, and Panama etc. Last month, I visited the southern route,

the eastern route was early this month, and would visit the western at the end of

this month. I am old and healthy and all is under my budget. Allow me to brief the

history which I concluded after a cruise trip to south America in the spring of 2017.

Queen Isabella of Castile financed Columbus to make an adventure to discover

West Indies in America. Spanish Empire colonized most of America and her wind

Power fleet shipped the loot back to Europe and the beginning of pirate in the

Caribbean. Queen Elizabeth I adopted the pirate to form her Navy and defeated

the Spanish Armada and the Caribbean America was wide open to the rest of European.

After the European Industrial Revolution, the steam power ship replaced the wind sail

power ship, Dutch and France joined the frenzy to grasp the Caribbean Islands. They

engaged the lucrative slave trade to move African to the Caribbean and sold them to

the north America. This is the reason why there are the majority of Caribbean population

nowadays. Previously, I was curiously wondering if there are better off after one hundred

years and now it would be un-important for my trips any longer. U.S. joined the frenzy by

attacking Cuba in 1898 to push down the Spanish Empire.

My trip on this route, we passed by San Juan, Porto Rico; San Thomas, US Virgin Islands;

San John’s, Antiqua; Fort de France, Martinique; Bridgetown, Barbados; Castries, St. Lucia;

Basseterre, St. Kitts; finally reached the lovely port city of Tampa, Florida. Most of my visit

to the port is limited to a short march to the old city for about two hours more or less. It is

phenomenal especially three huge ships or more disembark simultaneously. The old town

is crowded with cruise visitors. Shops, taxi, and other venture are all soliciting business like

Christmas day and New Year day in the U.S. or the Lunar New Year in my hometown in Taiwan.

People were coming home from the city work place to home for the holiday as I recalled the

Railroad authority even made a special effort to arrange college students in Taipei to move

back to the southern area during the winter break. Most of the ports in Caribbean does remind

me the old day of Taiwan rural area in the 60’s.

It is better off as my conclusion for the case it may be. The entire world is making progress so as

the Caribbean and there is a reason for not as satisfactory as we desire as long as we maintain

peace and there is always a hope. The Caribbean issue is very much different from the U.S. or

Europe, Middle East, or even in Taiwan. I must enjoy this opportunity to visit and enjoy it.

東加勒比海諸島行/莊峻華

東加勒比海諸島行/莊峻華

此行經由波多黎哥之山璜港出發，經過美屬維金群島之聖湯瑪斯港，安地瓜

島之聖約翰港，法屬瑪丁尼克島之法蘭西堡，巴貝多島之橋鎮，法屬聖露西

亞之卡斯萃港，聖啟特之巴瑟帖勒港，非常緊湊，然後就是海上三日夜，趕

回墨西哥灣之加勒比海，佛州西岸之天頗港，非常有趣，於是回家後兩日，

郵輪代理，寄來特價廣告，我又準備週日天頗港上船，遊西加勒比海，這是

墨西哥卡斯邁耳這一海岸線，約有一站是郵輪私有海島。

 郵輪界將加勒比海，分成四航線，東西南與巴拿馬，冬天阿拉斯加，歐洲，

和北加拿大航線，均加入加勒比海，非常熱鬧，乘客來自全球。我再重複我

之簡易歷史背景，西班牙伊薩蓓菈女王，驅逐回教摩爾人後，資助哥倫布到

加勒比海，然後就是西班牙之新美洲，歐洲之海盜船，在此海域和大西洋，

攔截西班牙美洲之擄獲，這是帆船風動力時代，英女皇伊莉莎白一世，收編

歐洲各國海盜，成為英國海軍，在英倫海峽，擊潰西班牙海軍，然後歐洲工

業革命，蒸汽機動力鐵船，取代帆船，西班牙王朝腐敗，無法匹敵歐洲列強

，加勒比海各島，逐漸淪為英法荷等國所有，最後一戰是美西戰爭，連美國

都參入一腳，此行中之波多黎哥，美屬維金群島，女兒之菲律賓等，均歸讓

美國，西班牙王國遂亡。這段期間，歐洲人在此販賣黑奴，加勒比海是奴隸

之島，我對此段歴史，深感興趣，奴隸制度，雖已取消，但奴工現象，仍然

存在。

我之拜訪，主要是各港口之老街，都是幾百年建築，古代老舊教堂，三艘以

上巨大郵輪人潮之湧入，像是舊日台灣鄉村過年，招客計程車，就像斗南車

站，帶來半世紀以上之美憶，我和一印尼青年，談到類似求學中經驗，我描

述台灣鐵路局，特別在寒假開始，安排大專列車，疏散返鄉學生，近代亞洲

幾國，仍舊有此景象，台灣則是青年返鄉投票，選舉總統市長，加勒比海諸

停泊海港，則是應付每日郵輪乘客，遊山玩水。

我注意當地使用之語言，英屬法屬美屬荷屬等，都參雜西班牙語，然後甚至

追溯到非洲和當地印地安人土語，法屬列島居民謙曰，所言者為破碎法語，

然正式教科書詞句則通曉無礙，幸好我有一百零一句法語，將距離拉近，更

覺旅行之有趣，我幾個月前，旅行南加勒比海諸島曰，奴隸之島，好過或是

壞過，都不重要矣，加勒比海物價高昂，此為事實，但耶和華女傳教士曰，

人仍需生活。