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Title: Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Stoddard, Charles Augustus, 1833-1920
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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dgetown, upon the returnvoyage, and left the place with pleasant memoriesof our brief visits. XX TRINIDAD THE DRAGONS MOUTH AND THE GULF OP PARIA DIS-COVERY BY COLUMBUS THREE FEARFUL FIRES RAILWAYS, STEAMSHIPS, AND ACTIVE COMMERCE FAMOUS GARDENS Seventeen hours of continuous steaming in asouthwesterly direction from Barbados brought uswithin siffht of the blue mountains of Trinidad.We passed by daylight along the northern coast,and arrived at the narrow entrance of the Gulf ofParia, known as Boca Drago, or the DragonsMouth. Our course was along lofty hills risingfrom the waters edge, which were clothed fromsea to sky in dense, dark forests. The volcanicappearance which marked the Caribbean Islands isgone, and Trinidad looks like a part of a conti-nent. Suddenly a narrow passage opened throughthe mountain wall, with a little rocky island,whitened by sea-birds, in its midst. Far out onthe horizon beyond the misty clouds which hoveredover the sea, could be discovered the continent of 170
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TRINIDAD 177 South America. Through a maze of currents,which would have made the passage difficult to asailing vessel, the steamer forced its way, and in. ashort time we had passed among a few low woodedislands into the vast Gulf of Paria, the great watery-plain where the floods of the Orinoco spread them-selves before mingling with the sea. The changewas marvellous; instead of the bright blue oceanwe were ploughing a yellow sea, waveless and blaz-ing with the reflection of a tropical sun. The hillsof Trinidad rose in the east, westward the sky metthe water, while a low shore could be seen in thefar south fringed with mangroves and palms. We had come into the gulf by the northern pas-sage ; the southern, by which Columbus entered onhis third voyage, lies opposite and is called the BocaSierpe, or Serpents Mouth. Here after a long andtrying voyage, the great navigator had found landagain, and in fulfilment of a vow to name the firstland after the Holy Trinity, he called the islandTrinid

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