The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 . 'F^hnrViU 12 Miles. marine channel, that no fluvial basin has yet been developed in it, so that the surface waters find no outlet seawards. The largest of the flooded depressions stands about the middle of the isthmus at a height of some 300 feet. Its old Indian name was Xaragua ; but the Spaniards usually call it Enriquillo (' Little Henry '), from a chief who long held out against the conquerors. He had taken refuge at last in an islet of the lake, which is now inhabited by wild goats, and
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita291recl Year: 1891 . 'F^hnrViU 12 Miles. marine channel, that no fluvial basin has yet been developed in it, so that the surface waters find no outlet seawards. The largest of the flooded depressions stands about the middle of the isthmus at a height of some 300 feet. Its old Indian name was Xaragua ; but the Spaniards usually call it Enriquillo (' Little Henry '), from a chief who long held out against the conquerors. He had taken refuge at last in an islet of the lake, which is now inhabited by wild goats, and hence called Cabritos. The French negroes call the lake Étang Salé, from its saline water. This closed basin, formerly a marine inlet, but now cut off by a bar from the ocean, is still inhabited by sharks and porpoises, and even by caymans, although these saurians generally avoid saline waters. The lake is very deep and has an area of 170 square miles. After heavy rains it occasionally forms a continuous sheet of water with another basin, the Laguna de Fundo, or Etang Saumache, which forms its north-western extension
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