1894
April 4
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caura
  A cloudy with occasional brief periods of sunshine
and a few light showers. There is much less wind
here than at most places on Trinidad; the high
ridges to the north and east cut it off almost completely.
It is only occasionally and for short periods that
the foliage is moved to any extent. Were it not that
the air has that vitality and freshness peculiar to
most eleviated regions it would be very hot at times
as it is the climate is even more delightful than
at Caparo.

  After early breakfast Mr. Lickfold took me for a
walk up the side of the mountain to the north of
the house. We followed a broad mule trace (the
public road to Arouca [?] Valley)) for a short distance
then turned aside into a foot path which led upward
through cacao plantations to a beautiful waterfall about
45 ft. in height and [delete]about[/delete] nearly a mile distance from
the house. Keeping on still further we came back into
the road and followed it [delete]back[/delete] homeward. The entire
walk was one of the very steepest that I have ever taken.
Yet mules & donkeys take heavy loads ( a mule sometimes
200 pounds) up and down this road.

  In a pretty little glen through which a brook came
[?] down over [delete]the[/delete] rocky ledges clustered thickly with
ferns & vines I heard what I was perfectly certain
were a number of Hummus (Phaethon[?][?]) singing but
Mr. Lickfold assured me that the sound was made by
frogs and presently proved this assertion by pointing out
one which was sitting on a wet stone under a projecting