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TRINIDAD : THEN AND NOW. 



being the owner of a copy, as therein he will find 

 much interesting information hitherto unknown to 

 him. Sir Charles has kindly given me permission to 

 use passages from his book. 



The chapter on the discovery of Trinidad by 

 Columbus, its possession and government under 

 Spanish rule, and its subsequent capture by the 

 British, has been taken from Sir Andrew Halli- 

 day, B. L. Joseph, and Sir Charles Lucas. The 

 chapter on Sir Thomas Picton as first Governor of 

 Trinidad, from McCallum (1803) ; " Memoirs of Sir 

 Thomas Picton " (1835) by B. H. Robinson, includ- 

 ing original correspondence in the possession of 

 Picton 's family ; and Joseph. For other sources of 

 scattered information I have had recourse to 

 " Domestic Manners in the "West Indies " (1797 to 

 1803) by Mrs. Carmichael— wife of the first owner of 

 Laurel Hill and who resided on that estate for over 

 three years ; a book called " Truths from the West 

 Indies " by Captain Studholm'e Hodgson (1833-8) 

 and the " History of the West Indies" (1794) by 

 Bryan Edwards, a splendid work in two volumes, 

 kindly given me by the Hon. A. P. Marryat. This 

 latter work does not treat of Trinidad because it was 

 not, at the time of publication, a British possession, 

 but notwithstanding this I have culled some useful 

 facts from it particularly relative to the introduction 

 of the Sugar Cane and Cacao into the West Indies. 

 With such varied sources of information I think that 

 those portions of this book which are written other- 



