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“...it suddenly
breaks upon the eye, the marvellous panorama of life,
sound, and colour which Kingsley pictured and described
in “ At Last,” a book which every visitor to Trinidad
should read. In many parts the sandy beach is used as
a high road, and one may meet an occasional cart or
motor-car, and peasants riding or walking from place to
place. Here no one need starve, for, apart from coco-
nuts from the palms fringing it, the sand, below high-
water mark, is full of tiny shell-fish called “ chip-chip,”
which make an excellent soup.
The road from Manzanilla to Guayaguayare on the
south coast is mainly the sandy shore. It dips inland,
however, behind Mayaro and passes through a forest of
Palmistes—one of the most remarkable sights in the
West Indies.
We had seen in Barbados and elsewhere lofty cabbage-palms
singly and in avenues and in small groups, but here was an actual
forest of these noble trees. Shoulder to shoulder they stand,...”
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“...d’Arbaud, 301
Champion, Major, 186
Chancellor, Sir John, 124
Chapeau Carré, 152
Chapelton, 256
Charity, 374
Charles II, King, 201, 272
Charles V of Spain, 6, 407
Charlestown, 225, 226
Charlotte Amaha, 314, 316.
See St. Thomas
Charlotte Town. See Gouyave
Charlotteville, 149
473
Chateaubelair, 193, 194, 195
Chatoyer, Carib leader, 183
Chauncey, H., 418, 421
Cheeks, Henry, 82
Cheere, John, 269
Cherry Tree Hill, 107
Chesapeake, American frigate,
5i
Chicle, 389
Chinese immigration, 8, 380,
428
“ Chip-chip ’’ soup, 136
Choiseul, 178
Christian V of Denmark, 316
Christian VI, 321
Christian IX, 317
Christiansted, or Bassin, 322-3
Christophe, the negro King, 364
Citadel of, 365
Palace of, 364
Tomb of, 365
Church of England, xo
Churches, All Saints, Bar-
bados, 107
All Saints, New Amster-
dam, 380
Christ Church, Barbados,
Fig Tree, Nevis, 229
Holy Trinity, Castries, 172
Kingston Parish Church,
262—4
(La Divina Pastora, Trini-
dad,’ X42
La Merced, 355
La Soledad, 355
Notre Dame de Montserrat,
Trinidad...”
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