spanish town , may pen , alligator pond , black river , whitehouse inn , where they had luncheon -- the miles unrolled under the fierce sun until , late the afternoon , a stretch of good straight road brought them among the spruce little villas , each with its patch of brownish lawn , its bougainvillaea and its single bed of canna lilies and crotons , which make up the `` smart '' suburbs of the modes little coastal township that is , in the vernacular , sav ' la mar .