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the last two active portions appear to be Mount St. Catherine 
and the Grand Etang. The valleys are principally cut in beds 
of volcanic conglomerate, tufa, and ashes. The chief town is 
St. George, with a population in 1891 of 4919. The population 
of Grenada in 1901 was 63,488. The prosperity of the island 
depends entirely on its agriculture. Sugar is still grown, but 
is not of a high class, and is consumed by the peasantry. Rum 
is distilled and is also consumed locally. The chief produce is 
now cacao, and it is this crop that has been the salvation of the 
island. Nutmegs are also largely grown and exported. Most 
tropical fruits are grown here. Ground provisions are numerous, 
including yams, plantains, tannias, sweet potatoes, koosh-koosh, 
-ochroes, maize, bread-fruit, &c. The climate is mild and 
salubrious, and on the higher lands fresh and invigorating. 
The highest temperature is 90 degrees in the valleys, and about 
seven degrees lower on the hills. The island is outside the storm 
zone and hurricanes are unknown, and gales occur very seldom. 
Thunderstorms are rare, and an earthquake usually occurs at the 
breaking up of the dry weather—about June, The flora and 
fauna of the island are fairly rich, numbering about 39 fruits, 
19 vegetables, and about 124 trees and shrubs of medicinal or 
economic value, 94 birds, 9 mammals, 15 reptiles, 6 shellfish, 
20 sea fish and 10 freshwater fish. 
We left Grenada about seven o’clock and retired early, as we 
had to be on.deck early next morning. Up at 5.80; day just 
breaking; almost above us a glorious and bright star (Sirius), 
also the Southern Cross. The day breaks very quickly here; in 
half-an-hour it is bright and the sun brilliant. Trinidad was 
lying on our port bow, with the mainland in the distance; on 
our starboard and ahead of us were the Bocas; after passing 
these it is about ten miles to Port of Spain. Saw the new light- 
house; it has only been erected about eighteen months. The sky 
at sunrise and sunset is very beautiful, the sky opposite the sun 
being of a most beautiful purple, which quickly changes its tints. 
A sunrise over the island of Trinidad is a sight not be missed. 
The sun has just risen, but it is for the moment behind a mass 
of cloud, and is throwing out most beautiful rays of light, illumi- 
_ nating all the clouds in the heavens with various shades of 
colour. Immediately on passing through the Bocas we struck 
the swift yellow water flowing from the Orinoco into the Atlantic, 
and from a choppy sea we were launched into water without a 
ripple on its surface, and we glided rapidly forward. The water 
here is of a yellowish colour, and is absolutely swarming with 
yellow jelly-fish looking very like half lemons. We passed the 
convict prison, situated on a small island about a mile from shore. 
_ Onur first officer told us that the waters here swarm with sharks; 
_ he has seen twenty at once fighting over the carcase of an ox. 
