The Republican journal., 1902-04-17
CAPITAL OF TRINIDAD.
nt To-Day in the English island.

.Qu9 The stranger III these
.ud mostly unimproved negro
.... MlS many surprises: but moth
so astonishes him as the
u uXury displayed at Port-of-
.. t,lr the rule is reversed-of a
.... hillside, which from afar
uuutitul as a dream of white
ices but proves on inspection
-Qualid and poverty strck-
British colonial capital does
..n Ip from the harbor, but with
I-b reserve discloses its beau
.u close acquaintance. Your
.,,lon is of nasty place, with
lhrre like that of a freshly
.t-bed, full of savage OF stupid
.r~, yuItures that sit like evil
0.u the houSe-tops waiting for
je that they may tear their
'I and air sWarming with un-
rults-yampires, deadly ser
.u,Iias, scorpions. centipedes,
SAY nothing of the demons
md pestllence that nightly
ud with tie deWs that fall
uaS that ascend. With unac-
elNor you repeat your pray
delivered from dangers seen
rl having in mind a thon-
ptsent pestS-ot which the
.4G>e commonest, are poison
.+- DraNling mto the food, hairy
r}Ing up your trousers leg,
' longer than your smallest
40tt.Y the color of the leaves
.cu they lie in wait to murder,
that 90 eheerfully buzziug by
an intinitessimal egg under
which soon develops into a
ri Nriggllng worms, to be dug
sharp knife: and chigoes, or
that lurk in every crack of
...ts and tiled floors, to bore them
oddly through the soles and un-
.oe-nallS OF pedestrians. These
a few of Trinidad's objection
cents: and by and by you learn
~ these are, some of them, not
uted evils The snakes. for ex-
LAT have their homes between
.It walls of houses, in thatched
md garden arborS, swallow mvri-
lizards, reaches and other ver-
+ would otherwise make life un
lte: JlggerS compel the shoeing,
4etimes even the washing of the
ah extensively smelly popula-
l the vultures are public bless
the way OF scavangers. They
most valuable and industrious
'e native inhabitants and with
m. lacking amy system Of sewer
-.r city would suffer from a per
pIague,
.t-Npain has wide, badly-paved
streets, long as the purses of
-.,h uabobs, shaded by the most
trees of the tropics, and with
L.tterS down each side through
torrent rushes after every
carrying down to the water
'iotSdm of ottal dead eats and
A.tchen refuse. et cetera. The
gu is officially enumerated as
hut you imagine it to be much
.- ON account Of the uumber of
no are Iouugiug about every
nre-empting all the shady street
and park benches, apparently
a care or grievance III the
A4 with nothing whatever TO do.
ld that fully one-tifth of the
yt thousand residents of Port
are without visible means of
hut would disdain to work if it
rlered them at highest wages.
I'm to be as happy and content
they are lazy always lounging,
oI sucking cane-stalks, sleeping
-. ere in the open and subsisting
on fruits, which are plentiful as
and literally dirt cheap
nmdad's motley population the
ful reader of history may easily
connection between cause and
He sees numerous traces of the
nal Indians and the Caribs, as
.- ot the early Spanish owners of
aud. When Don Josef Maria
-a."n was Governor, he strove to
FIJI. The Spanish rule by inviting all
e-ers providing always that they
Homan Catholics, to come to
3d and settle on liberal grants of
and. Each white person, of
lex, was offered, gratis. thirty
eS OF this Incompatible soil, and
' lat amount additional for every
"'- or she should bring along. Free
'l'a people were also encouraged to
Ot and given sixteen acres each.
io Port-of-Spain poured a motley
"NJ principally French to the num-
twenty thousand within a few
'asaS; and soon the island was Span
'0"'.y in name. But the old Conquis-
4l'eS left indelible marks behind in
alnes, architecture, language, laws.
'''ns and municipal arrangements.
t' uFerybody knows, Trinidad has been
.F ssh colony since 1902. Five wears
'l' n" that Spain rashly declared war