CARR — VOYAGE ROUND TRINIDAD. #97 
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from the great wild palm, Temichal’ from Temiche, our 
serviceable Timite, so much valued for its uninflammable 
leaves as a thatching material, Morichal from Moriche (the 
Mauritia palm, found in differing species from the Pitch 
Lake of LaBrea to the Llanos of Nueva Andalugia, and 
through the Canos or Delta of the Orinoco to the swampy 
Savanas of British Guiana, and'perhaps further) ; Cacao, 
the chocolate tree, forms Cacagual (pronounced Cacawal), 
and Muro, the old Spanish and Indian name in Trinidad 
of the Mora tree, Mural, now apparently quite fixed into 
Mora and Moral. These aggregative words are so econo- 
mical, expressive and convenient, that] they should not be 
allowed to fall into disuse, and might even be usefully 
imported into the^English language, with power of exten- 
sion. We can make room for them with thanks ; would that 
we could as easily annex the Spanish wealth in augmenta- 
tives and diminutives ! The Mararave is the Grigri palm, 
whose large bunches of nuts looking like enormous clusters 
of coral-red grapes, may be seen in the fruit-trays in town, 
usually towards the end of the dry season. 
The Mai d’estomac or Saut d’Eau mountains are directly 
north of this town and of the Maraval valley, and having 
some cotters with small cultivations dotted along the track 
passed over by the fishermen and fisherwomen who used 
to furnish the town with fish from Saut d’Eau bay, a good 
bridle road has, I am assured, been formed from Maraval 
valley to these upland settlements. I am told that some 
European vegetables that cannot come to perfection in the 
high temperature of our low lands, do exceedingly well 
there. 
The mountains intervening, there is no indication of the 
valley to the south of them, looking from the sea at the 
north, nor do I suppose there is of Santa Cruz valley look- 
