TRINIDAD : THEN AND NOW. 







another. Have you never tasted Cadbury's Cocoa, 

 grown on many of the best estates in Trinidad 

 and supervised by one of the ablest cocoa planters to 

 be found in the West Indies, familiarly known as 

 Cocoa Bain ? Have you never heard of the nu- 

 merous cocoa plantations which send to all the 

 markets of the world their golden beans, some over 

 3,000 bags of 200 lbs. each, and a host of others 

 making from 100 to 200 bags a year ; some owned 

 by the nobility and rich commoners of England, 

 others by wealthy planters, — many of them sons 

 of the soil, — and others who through long resi- 

 dence have almost become its sons, and descend- 

 ing from these wealthy men by gradual gradation 

 from the men owning 2,000 acres to the more hum- 

 ble peasant proprietor with his 10 to 100 acres of 

 cocoa plantations, thus causing Trinidad to rank as 

 the fourth largest cocoa exporting country in the 

 world, with an annual output in some years aggre- 

 gating twenty-six millions of pounds ? Have 

 you never enjoyed that peculiar beverage called 

 a ' cock-tail,' the principal ingredient of which 

 is the celebrated 6 Angostura Bitters,' made in 

 Port-of-Spain the principal town of Trinidad ? 

 Have you never trod the pavements or driven over 

 the roads of New York and other cities of the United 

 States of America and other parts of the world, made 

 from the world-renowned Trinidad pitch ? Have you 

 never heard of Trinidad's beautiful scenery ; its fine 

 drives and rides over hill and through dale ; its 

 many historic spots where Britain's sons have 



