CHAPTER IX. 



POKT-OF-SPAIK, AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. 



In describing Old Port-of-Spain it will be neces- 

 sary to go back to the time when it was the chief seat 

 of the Spanish colony to whom it belonged. In 

 writing of a remote period I must necessarily refer 

 to other writers and in this instance I avail myself of 

 the kind permission of Mr. Osborne Inniss, to take a 

 short extract from a useful little pamphlet called 

 " Trinidad and Trinidadians " published by him in 

 1910 ; it contains much useful information, quaint 

 sayings and folk lore of Trinidad. 



I do not intend to trespass too much on his kind- 

 ness and will only copy two paragraphs which read 

 as follows : — 



1 ' The streets were as wide as at present and ran at 

 right angles, but there were only seven, running 

 from north to south and three cross streets. The 

 streets were Trois Chandel now Duncan St., L'Eglise 

 now Nelson, Laplace now George, St. Ann's now 

 Charlotte St., d'Herrera now Henry, Des Anglais 

 now Frederick St., and Chacon — then in process of 

 construction. These streets did not run higher than 

 the present site of Duke Steet, as the bed of the St. 

 Ann's River, or as it is now called the Dry River, ran 



