CHAPTER XI. 



CASUAL WANDERINGS, No. 1. 



Having described the streets and extensions 

 of Port-of-Spain, the roads of the colony as they were 

 Then and as they are Now, it becomes necessary to 

 afford our more athletic visitors a sketch of what 

 can be seen during the course of an evening without 

 much expense — mainly on foot. In order to do so I 

 will ask them to accompany me for a quiet stroll to 

 the places and in the way indicated in this chapter 

 which will, I think, repay it. 



Some people delight in rushing at railway speed 

 by motor car through our level country where they 

 have neither the time for nor the opportunity of 

 seeing much as they rush through it. Of course 

 every one to his taste and it is not my intention to 

 dictate to people what they are to see or how they 

 are to see it ; but I take the liberty of thinking that 

 to many people a quiet stroll in the way here indi- 

 cated will be the more acceptable and thus I 

 reproduce — with the permission of the Principal of 

 the Queen's Royal College — a sketch which was 

 originally written for and published in the Chronicle 

 of that institution. It will be seen that it was, as it 

 were, intended as a guide to boys desirous of plea- 



