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“...TRINIDAD
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estates, is the Black Virgin in the small church
at Tortuga. It is a commonplace wooden figure
of the Madonna with the child, and, though her
features are not those of a negress, her face and
hands are quite black. There is another Black
Virgin in Trinidad, at a church in Siparia, near
La Brea, and it is said that she was taken into
Port of Spain by a priest, but that, like the Bam-
bino of the Ara Cceli in Rome, she found her
way back to her original home.
San Fernando, the second town of the island San
(35 miles from Port of Spain, two hours by train),Fernando-
is situated on the slopes of a hill of volcanic
formation, which stands out by itself near the
sea in the undulating Naparima district, the prin-
cipal sugar-growing part of the island. From this
centre several sugar estates and factories may be Sugar
visited. They include the Usine St. Madeleine Estates-
of the New Colonial Co. Ltd. (4 miles from
San Fernando), La Fortunée estate, belonging
to Messrs. Charles Tennant...”
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