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clever men ; but it is only reasonable to expect that 

 the younger learned from the elder. 



Some time after our arrival in Trinidad we re- 

 ceived a letter from the husband of the Russian lady, 

 to whom I have alluded, thanking us for the care we 

 had taken of his wife. 



I landed in Trinidad after dark on Monday the 

 1st of November, 1874, where I and my comrades 

 were received with a kind of wonder which we did 

 not then understand, but with which we were later 

 made acquainted. And here the remainder of my 

 sketches will begin and end by describing events 

 purely belonging to Trinidad. 



