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1894 
Ap ril 4 
Caura. 
A cloudy day 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 elevated regions, 
it would be very hot at times. As it is, the climate is 
even more delightful than at Caparo. 
After early breakfast Mr. Lichfold 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 cs.cao plantations 
to a beautiful waterfall about 45 feet in height and 
nearly a mile distant from the house. Keeping on still 
further we came back into the road and followed it home¬ 
ward. The entire walk was one of the very steepes t that 
I have ever taken. Yet mules and donkeys take heavy loads 
(a mule sometimes 200 pounds) up and down this road. 
In a pretty little glen through which a brook 
came dashing down over rocky ledges clustered thickly with 
ferns and vines I hes_rd what I was perfectly certain were 
a number of Hummers ( Phaethornis guyi ) singing, but Mr. 
Lichfold assured me that the sound was made by frogs and 
