308 RECEPTION AT TRINIDAD OF CUBA. 
nomer Don Antonio Ulloa, gave them a grand en- 
- tertainment, at which they met with some French 
emigrants of Saint Domingo. The evening was 
passed very agreeably in the house of one of the 
richest inhabitants, Don Antonio Padron, where they 
found assembled all the select company of the place. 
Their departure was very unlike their entrance ; for 
the municipality caused them to be conducted to the 
mouth of the Rio Guaurabo in a splendid carriage, 
and an ecclesiastic dressed in velvet celebrated in a 
sonnet their voyage up the Orinoco. | 
The population of Trinidad, with the surrounding 
farms, was stated to be 19,000. It has two ports at 
the distance of about four miles, Puerto Casilda 
and Puerto Guaurabo. On their return to the latter 
of these the travellers were much struck by the 
prodigious number of phosphorescent insects which 
illuminated the grass and foliage. ‘These insects 
(Elater noctilucus) are occasionally used for a lamp, 
being placed in a calabash. perforated with holes ; 
and a young woman at Trinidad informed them 
that, during a long passage from the mainland, she 
always had recourse to this light when she gave her 
child the breast at night, the captain not. aoe 
any other on board for fear of pirates. 
