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“...., bathe and dine at the
hotel at Pointe Baleine and return after dinner by moonlight
—in itself a delightful experience. The splendid open beaches
at Balandra and Manzanilla Bays on the East Coast within
easy reach of Port of Spain by motor-car are ideal for afternoon
picnics and surf-bathing in the open Atlantic.
The fishing in the neighbourhood of the Bocas is, at times,
excellent, and especially so when the tarpon and king-fish are
biting, while even when they are not the visitor who puts him-
self in the hands of an experienced local fisherman rarely returns
with an empty basket. One hundred and sixteen different kinds
of fish are found in Trinidad waters, of which eighty-five are
food fishes and thirty-one are not used for food. Cavalli or
carangue, tarpon or grand écaille, king-fish or tassard, and the
barracouta are the most highly prized by sportsmen. Alligators
are found in the Caroni River, two miles from Port of Spain,
and flamingoes and several kinds of wild duck...”
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“...174 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
come alongside and discharge passengers and cargo with-
out the intervention of boats. Castries is an important
coaling station. As at Nagasaki in Japan, the work of
coaling is carried on almost entirely by women, and it
is interesting to watch them swinging up the gangway
with baskets of coal on their heads while keeping up an
incessant fire of chaff and enlivening themselves by
singing chanties. It is doubtful whether there is any
other part of the world where women carry such heavy
loads as they do at Castries, each basket holding iog lbs.
of coal.
Castries presents no features of exceptional interest.
The Post Office is in the Prince Alfred Building—so
called after the late Duke of Edinburgh, who visited
the West Indies in H.M.S. Si. George in 1861. The
Public Works Department occupies a building erected
in the old Army Commissariat Yard on the sea front.
The Administrator’s Office is opposite the police barracks
at the...”
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“... the other side
a boy holding an olive branch in his hand resting, on a cornu-
copia full of tropical fruits, while his right hand rests on a shield
on which are blazoned the arms of Jamaica, which are heraldic-
ally described : argent on a cross gules, five pine-apples ; dexter
supporter an Indian female, in her exterior hand a basket of
fruit; sinister, an Indian warrior, in his exterior hand, a bow,
both plumed. Crest, an alligator passant. Motto: Indus
uterque semiet uni. (The Indians twain shall serve one Lord.)
Other notable memorials in the Cathedral are those to
the wife of Sir Adam Williamson and Dr. Brodbelt (both
by Bacon), Sir Basil Keith, Governor of Jamaica
(d. 1777), by J. Wilton, R.A.; Colonel William
Selwyn, Governor of Jamaica (d. 1702); Sir Thomas
Modyford, Governor of Jamaica (d. 1679); Sir Thomas
Lynch, Governor of Jamaica (d. 1684) ; The Earl of
Inchiquin, Governor of Jamaica (d. 1692) (erected by the
present Lord Inchiquin): Samuel Long, Speaker of...”
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