The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-02-22
SAILING NORTHWARD.
u.lt at the Island of Trinidad. Port of
Spain and it's People.

.r.E \ eneZuela, we nave Deen du-
vi not to attempt to enter that
INV little republic just now by its
..fgal sea-gate, LaGuayra, but
ami uy its back door, so to say, that
F. Oriuoco river, which penetrates
is center by a less war-troubled
.. Hence we find ourselves strand
.u this famous island near the
.tI. Of the great river waiting for a
.- 10 take us in the desired direc-
T., SAID that Columbus during the
DAYS of his last voyage promised
-,trOn saint that if any new land
discovered he would name it Trini-
IN honor of the Holy Trinity. So
In due course, the triple peaks
.s- near the southeastern corner
Is loN island suddenly sprang into
, Ute July morning in 1899, he re
...l them as a heaveu-Sent con
u OF his pious intention and
.Nav christened the island
lad though for many years
Her the natives stuck with great
e.. TO Its ancient name of lere.
st admiral then coasted down
.-trru side of this last island of
..t Indian archipelago rounded
I'm point, passed through the
.. CHANNEL between it and the
Heau mainland, and named the
La BOc4 Sierte, The Serpent S
entered this Pairia gulf, which
..le4 Gulf Balem or Gulf of
and finally returned to the
-.u through the narrow chan
'1cA lie came. the Boco Drdga
rtg0uS Mouth. - Therefore,
not exactly following i'll the
., of the discoverer, We are
u4 practically the same route,
which still bear the names he
3D.
.- little more than four hundred
- setWeeu that summers day and
+ uid-Winter, the outlook from a
4aehored in the Gulf OF Para is
-- Unchanged. The easy-golng peo-
tle tropics do not obliterate an
aud-marks, nor move mountains
4uge the course of rivers with
.r,Istent energy of Northelners
4. destructive march OF Socalled
,-meuts; and ii trees are occa-
rs cut down and the earth torn up
1ilding of cities, Nature haStens
..e Ter wounds beneath richer YER
Il is said that Columbus was as
ii TO find such a green and beau
uautry SO near to the equator, ex
I- the soil to be dry and sterile,
-.a- of ponding ATTITUDES on
.rr side of the globe. The scene
chanting today, the lazy waters
.ap the brightest ultra marine
.- Tan any blue ever painted, be
Ich the midsummer sky looks
SIND. faded: on the right the noun
It Cuimana, a spur of the Nene-
Andes. their SUBMITS lost III the
.,. ON the left, the tall cliffs OF
..i. covered to their tops with 81
trreS that seem to SWIM IL md
-r. magnificent groves of cocoa
tul dark forests running down
"a. fIinged with evergreen man
.- ,tlll at their old tricks Of Turing
f. ont of the depths to cling TO
Emerged branches. then leaving
.lgn and dry as Columbus saw
and wrote, amazed, to his queen
..-trrs growing on trees Behind
-.t.r mouths of the Boca del Draga,
4ggy islands between chem, APP
-.p narrow. winding '>erpent's
leading out to the Atlantic.
s.rrctiy in front, instead OF the
wondering Indians, whom Co
. described as with fair com
and much smooth hair wear
..tou TUNES and carrying bows
flows and square bucklers, there
2. ot spain, noisy, populous city
haudsomest in all the West
later contrast could hardly lie
than that between Trinldad's
quilt and controlled by Eng
.... and cities on the Venezuelan
tins small gulf. As everybody
Trinidad has been British
.o!ony since 1902. it was Span
-g 1896, when Spain rashly de-
an against England and great
"a attles were fought III West
waters between English,
..r lJuICl anu . pdlllSH lloSto.
blowing year Admirals Hussey
-rcrombie sailed up to Port of
with twenty men-of-War and d
array of soldiers. The Spanish
u Apadoca, cooped up with four
yates, gave timely heed to the
The who fights and runs
to-, burned his ships and ke-
ich 'Ihpra
.u Alonzo Chacon, wiser than a
- # today, capitulated and the
ss5ed forever into the unrelax
.gu Of England. Its affairs are
mustered by crowned COVER
executive council of three
-- and a legislative council Of
~nDers and IA legislative coun-
sfrteen. Though the province
lty miles long by about thirty
.. n $ the largest of the Windward
oelonging to Great Britain, the
f Unable of King Edwards pos
ia the West Indies except
.dca, and possesses one of the
-Ie.t curiosities in the world in its
Hf lake. Trinidad has several
of Importance; besides it's capital,
~ II them connected by railway.
land is traversed by three noun
Wges. between which lie series
beautiful valleys, many of the latter
o-4j by transverse ridges running
Nt-u the main chains. There are in
tla,Ie streams, and a soil of such
,.Fo.ous fertility that although the
,tun is small and three fourths
sand yet covered by primeval
considerable quantities OF cot
cocoa, sugar, rum, molasses, arrow
mm OIL, cocoanuts, etc, are an
Xported, principally to Eng
0.t.i spain has wide, clean, straight
..- Ioug as the purses of the ma
sch paved, well lighted and shad-
The most splendid trees of the
"Ne The town was originally built
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