338 COCOA 



CHAP. 



cutting sand-box trees many a labourer has been badly 

 injured or has even lost his eyes by the sharp milky 

 juice. It may be mentioned here that the juice of the 

 sugars-cane is a good remedy against it, and in Surinam 

 the labourers, when they go cutting forest which con- 

 tains sand-box trees, never omit to take a piece of 

 sugar-cane with them. 



Quite different from Ecuador, where through the 

 whole country the type of cocoa is so very uniform, the 

 Trinidad plantations show a mixtum compositum of 

 all sorts of varieties, but all Forastero types, Criollo 

 not being grown in Trinidad. 



To save confusion I refer to what was said about 

 the Criollo variety in Chapter V. It would be very 

 confusing to call " Criollo " in every country the variety 

 which is considered to be there the indigenous one. 

 In doing so the name " Criollo " could no longer 

 represent a definite variety or a well-defined class of 

 types. We had better keep the names " Criollo " and 

 " Forastero " over the whole world for the same varieties, 

 calling " Criollo " the variety with soft-skinned, deeply- 

 furrowed, warty fruits and white round sweet beans, 

 and "Forastero" the variety which has less warty or 

 even smooth fruits with a hard, woody skin, with not 

 such deep furrows and flatter beans, this latter variety 

 comprising all the sub -varieties running from the 

 " Angoleta," which is much alike the Criollo, through 

 the "Cundeamor" and " Amelonado" to the " Calaba- 

 cillo," with very hard-skinned fruits with almost a 

 smooth surface and very flat bitter beans. 



If we accept the terms " Criollo " and " Forastero " 

 in this sense we can say that no " Criollo " is grown in 

 Trinidad, but of "Forastero" all sorts of types may be 

 found. 



It has, however, not always been so. 



Dr. de Verteuil 1 tells us in his work on Trinidad 

 that from its first settlement Trinidad exported cocoa, 

 and that cocoa soon gained a reputation on account of 



1 Dr. de Verteuil as quoted by Hart (Cacao, 2nd edition, 1900, p. 56). 



