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tinually reclaimed from the sea. True, now and again, 
a change of current undoes the work of many years, yet 
although one spot may suffer, the coast line is extend- 
ing farther and farther, as it must have been doing 
since ages ago when the sand reefs formed the first 
beach. 
Almost as interesting as Dauntless Island is the Coura- 
banna point, well-known as a land-mark on the East 
Coast in the last century. It appears that the Coura- 
banna Creek drained the East Coast between the Deme- 
rara and Mahaica before any plantations existed in that 
district. When the estates began to be empoldered, 
however, the creek became of less importance, the current 
getting weaker and the bar more and more shallow, 
until courida seeds found a congenial spot on which to 
germinate. Then a long island extended itself in front 
of the creek, entirely choking its old outlet, leaving it to 
find a way into the sea by the small channels between 
the island and the mainland. At this time writers men- 
tioned two creeks, the Great and Little Courabanna, the 
larger channel flowing to the West and the smaller to the 
East. Soon the lesser became choked and the Creek 
was then represented as taking an abrupt turn to the 
left behind a headland called Courabanna Point or Point 
Spirit. An area of at least a dozen square miles was thus 
recovered from the sea, mainly by the work of the courida. 
Later the creek entirely disappeared. The currents have 
now become changed, and a struggle is taking place at 
the same spot (Lusignan Point) between the sea and the 
courida, with the result that a large portion of the re- 
claimed land has been washed away. Notwithstanding 
this, however, there will certainly be some gain of land in 
