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The foregoing Is from Fredrick Fenger’a n Alone in the Carifc* 
bean® (1917 # p • 298). A tm pages farther along (p. 305): 
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..There in & shallow pit, two yards fro® our 
ath, lay seven rusty cannon, half buried in the sand. 
He did not Sieve to tall me that these were the last of 
the old battery of eleven which had belched forth their 
welcome to the And yea horia. Some time after the salute, 
the guns were condemned &nc piled up near the present 
Government Fort-Office in the fort where they remained 
till the late seventies. At that time an American schooner, 
cruising shout for scrap iron, came to Static to buy old 
cannon . The trunnions were knocked off to that they would 
roll the easier and they were thrown ever the edge of the 
cliff." 
As you mey enjoy browsing through the original , I uni sending you 
Fenger’s book along with mother he wrot * , "The Cruise of the Diablease" 
(1926) in which the cannon are mentioned ago. in (p. 260 ) i 
"Half hidden in the sc.no were the old iron 
cannon which are credited upon good authority ae having 
bellowed the first salute to our flag. They lay almost 
directly beneath the ramparts of Fort Oraaje whence 
they were throrr. down forty years Defers. Originally 
they numbered eleven t when the skipper first saw them, 
on his lakaboo cruise, four had been taken .-..-ray by a 
trading vessel whose owner had an option on the lot but 
felled to return r or the rest of them. Later three 
more were snagged off the beach by & lew Bedford whaler. 
After the war, the skipper with o there made an attempt 
to bring the remaining four to the United States for 
museum pieces , but the Butch governor who was strongly 
1 Pro-German and. hated American* , frustrated their plans. 
A pity, that those old guns should be allowed to rust 
away or go down in the bfella&t of some worn-out old 
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Another out of the way island which also has no real place in this 
letter because it is to the east and not the west of Trinidad, is Tobago. 
I Just cm * t help running it in hers because of its sentimental or rather 
romantic interest . 
Tobago furnished the locale of Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe," even 
though the exploits of Defoe’s hero were those of Alexander Selkirk on 
Juan Fernandas. 
