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TRINIDAD : THEN AND NOW. 



There can be no doubt that if they had known how to 

 use their firearms few, if any, of the garrison would 

 have escaped with their lives. ' 7 



The mutineers were afterwards tried by Court- 

 Martial appointed from Barbados, and after a 

 lengthy trial and the evidence being submitted to the 

 General at Barbados for final decision, three of the 

 mutineers, viz., Daaga, Ogston and Torrence were 

 sentenced to be shot ; and on the morning of the 16th 

 August, 1837, the sentence was carried out, the con- 

 demned men standing by their open graves. 



A fuller account of this sad transaction may be 

 obtained by reference to Joseph's history. 



Recently while digging the foundation for a 

 tennis court about where these three men were exe- 

 cuted and buried, a skull was found, which is sup- 

 posed to have been that of one of those men, with a 

 bullet hole through the forehead. Others of the 

 mutineers were sentenced to various terms of im- 

 prisonment varying from transportation for life, to 

 twenty years, ten years, and others terms of im- 

 prisonment. 



Having finished our ramblings and sketch, we 

 will make our way back to our homes. We have 

 touched on many things, some of them, we hope of 

 interest, and have slightly dipped into the history of 

 Trinidad of Then and in a lesser degree the Trinidad 

 of Now, as exemplified in the description of many 

 cocoa plantations that have, within recent years 

 sprung from desolate looking hills. 



