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Cacao, chopping branch wood for fag; 

 and handy implement no one here wc 

 bush land. It is in the form of a bro 

 wooden handle rivetted with a slight 

 bardless and is sold by the importin, 

 each. 



(e.) Lance. The usual lance of 

 effective known to him, than which 1 

 an old Brown Bess mounted on a sti 

 wood, cut in the forest, and shaped t 

 cabin home. 



(/.) Coffee-Digger.. This straigh 



ment {liichette in patois, chicuara of th 



in England for drain-cutting, is empl 



for transplanting young coffee, looser 



earth attached as much as possible 



This grubbing spade is always taken 



lapp or tatou (armadillo or hog-in-ari 



With it he digs down to the game i 



retreated into. When the back of 



digger is thrown aside to give the co 



lance (the old bayonet) ; then the hoL 



[g.) Peon. A very useful class of 



the western side of the Gulf in consic 



struggle for independence from the 1 



Venezuela in the early part of the c€ 



largely in the Quarter of Couva, spre 



East into Montserrat. Being good v 



by the proprietors of that day in thrc 



for new estates. Squatting in the 



carved out conucoes in the woods, g 



daily provision, and cacao for a pei 



rather say the descendents of the c 



speed and neatness with which the] 



piece. The peonaje of the main are 



mothers by fathers of the early Spar 



(h.) Qitank. Dicotyles Tajacii, or ' 



here (to distinguish it from D. labiafi 



literature, the ' Small Red Quank' o 



(Cuenco) being gray all over, collar i 



(f.) Lapp. (Labba of Demerara 



tion, the best mammal flesh in the Is 



of the Island, disappearing by degree 



(y.) The I inmort el {more commo: 



species are used by the Trinidad pla; 



the Anauco {Eiyihrina velutina Wil 



a small head of branches high abov 



branching Bucare [Erythrina umbros 



much better in its early years, b 



to reduce the shade when too umbr; 



there would otherwise be to remove 



grown so large and heavy that their 



without breaking the cacao brand 



increased labour and and cost, many 



bucare to the anauco. In character z 



two species differ but little from eacl 



(A.) Silk Cotton tree. Eriodendron 



