CARE VOYAGE ROUND TRINIDAD. 361 



The following communication was read : 



Notes of a Voyage round the Island of Trinidad in 



October, 1868. 



By Thomas William Carr. 



(Communicated by the President.) 



Part I. 

 (abridged.) 



Mr. William Tucker Laving invited me to accompany him 

 on a coasting voyage, I gladly took advantage of his invita- 

 tion, with a view to make myself better acquainted with the 

 geography and natural history of the island. We sailed from 

 Port-of-Spain on the 11th October last, and ran down to 

 Monos to take in ballast. We neared that Island towards 3 

 p.m. during a southerly squall heralded by thunder and ac- 

 companied by driving rain, the wind veering round to east, 

 and going down in about three-quarters of an hour as the 

 storm passed by to the West. 



We were fortunately so close to our destination that we 

 were able to gain shelter behind Dominique Point, and run 

 into l'Anse Maho in the bottom of Dehert Bay, anchoring just 

 as the squall and gloom reached their height. We lay 

 nearly landlocked ; and the storm, by the rapidity of its pas_ 

 sage, not having had time to raise a sea in the Gulf, we were 

 in still water. 



This squall recalled to our minds that it was the anniver- 

 sary of the last Hurricane by which the island had been vi- 

 sited : this, the only Hurricane of which I (or Mr. Tucker) 

 had had any experience, set in near midnight of the 11th 

 October, 1847, lasting in strong but fitful blasts for about 3 



