CHAPTER in. 
PEOPLE, LANGUAGES, AND EELIGIONS. 
The people of Trinidad number almost one hundred 
thousand, of whom about twenty thousand live in and 
around Port of Spain. San Fernando, the only other 
town in the island, distant from the capital about thirty 
miles, contains about six thousand inhabitants. The 
remainder are scattered far and wide upon the estates, 
in the villages, throughout the whole country. 
Many distinct peoples go to make up the population 
of Trinidad. There are men from all quarters of the 
globe, and with but little exaggeration, it may be said 
that, in Trinidad, all the languages of the earth are 
spoken. 
Representatives of the aborigines are scarcely to be 
found, though they may be said to remain in their 
descendants born of Indian and Spanish parents. Once 
a year the Guaraoons, a tribe of Indians, who live on 
the banks of the Orinoco, come in their canoes to the 
south-eastern coast, travel along Avell-known Indian 
tracks, and come as far as San Eernando, which is to 
them the opposite side of the island. They are a stout 
copper-coloured, long-haired people, and some of them 
are probably the descendants of Indians, who, in former 
years, left Trinidad for the mainland. “ The few 
aborigines yet remaining in the colony, are leading an 
isolated life in the forests, depending for their subsist- 
ance upon hunting and fishing, using the bow and 
arrow in preference to the fowling-piece, and in short, 
retaining their savage, ancestral habits ])rccisely as if 
