EASTWARD HO! 8i 



there were the usual evidences of energy and progress in the 

 tropics, boilers, tanks, iron wheels and rails, machinery of all 

 kinds, balks of timber lying all around, with recalcitrant 

 mules and cattle, swarthy and sweating Ethiops, many ob- 

 jurgations, and an atmosphere of general profanity. Out of 

 this chaos, in time, order will be evolved, but the initiatory 

 stages under a tropical sun are not inviting. 



Students of the sea-shore will be glad to hear that they 

 can get seaweed of many and varied hues, the best I have 

 seen in the tropics, on the Western arm of Guayaguayare 

 Bay, and the shells seemed to me objects of beauty, but not 

 being a conchologist, I cannot pronounce authoritatively on 

 them. The authorities of the Oil Company, following the 

 advice of the "Tropical School of Medicine, have erected 

 mosquito-proof bungalows for their chief officials (the first 

 buildings of the kind in Trinidad), in order that they may 

 be able to battle with that insidious foe, malarial fever, of 

 which Guayaguayare, like all newly opened districts on a 

 tropical coast, has a fair share ; and the result of that experi- 

 ment will be interesting to follow. They have been put up 

 on the beach (vide illustration), some distance South of the 

 Pilote River, and the occupants looked fairly healthy so far, 

 the fair chatelaine being, as she generally is — on deck. After 

 a most agreeable evening and a fine cool night (no mosquito 

 nets), L. E. B. and self left next morning for Mayaro, where 

 we parted company, the former making for his palmy home 

 with its foam-flecked border, while I worked my passage to 

 Port of Spain, via Rio Claro and Princestown. 



