50 NAPARIMA. 



earned gains to the ruffiau who considers her as his property. 

 But there is also law in Trinidad, and such offences do not 

 go unpunished. 



Then on througli Savannah Grande and village again, and 

 past more sugar estates, and past beautiful bits of forest, left, 

 like English woods, standing in the cultivated fields. One 

 patch of a few acres on the side of a dell was very lovely. 

 Huge Figuiers and Huras ^vere mingled with palms and rich 

 undergrowth, and lighted up here and there with purple 

 creepers. 



So we went on, and on, and into the thick forest, and what 

 was, till Sir Ealph Woodford taught the islanders what an 

 European road was like, one of the pattern royal roads of the 

 island. Originally an Indian trace, it had been widened by 

 the Spaniards, and transformed from a line of mud six feet 

 broad to one of thirty. The only pleasant reminiscence 

 which I have about it was the finding in flower a beautiful 

 parasite, undescribed by Griesbach ; ^ a '' wild pine " with a 

 branching spike of .crimson flowers, purple tipped ; which 

 shone in the darkness of the bush like a great bunch of rose- 

 buds growing among lily -leaves. 



The present Governor, like Sir Ralph Woodford before 

 him, has been fully aware of the old saying which the 

 Romans knew well, and which the English did not know, 



^ iEclimsea Augusta. 



