Sight-seeing in South America . ing out across the great, green campus, calledthe Savannah, upon which the English residents playcricket and indulge in other sports in the cool of theafternoons. The lunch of fish, fowl, fruit, and ices wasexcellent, but we were loath to linger at the table becauseof the semi-oriental group of colored peddlers and Hin-du jugglers outside, inviting us to buy their baskets offruits, talking parrots, trained monkeys, cheap but ex-quisite linen embroideries and other products of theisland. Monkeys and parrots from a dollar up were atemptation that many could not re
Sight-seeing in South America . ing out across the great, green campus, calledthe Savannah, upon which the English residents playcricket and indulge in other sports in the cool of theafternoons. The lunch of fish, fowl, fruit, and ices wasexcellent, but we were loath to linger at the table becauseof the semi-oriental group of colored peddlers and Hin-du jugglers outside, inviting us to buy their baskets offruits, talking parrots, trained monkeys, cheap but ex-quisite linen embroideries and other products of theisland. Monkeys and parrots from a dollar up were atemptation that many could not resist. Hindu jugglers Trinidad 23 with their clever tricks, added the flavor of the Orientto the American tropics. Abotit one-third of the inhabitants of Trinidad areHindus. When slavery was abolished the problem ofgetting cheap, colored labor, where the white man cannotwork, was solved bv importing East Indian coolies. Thefirst shipload arrived in 1843. They came inicler gov-ernmental regulations, with a provision that upon the. Colored Children of Many Races expiration of their contracts the} should l)e returnedfree, but the}- have so liked the new world that mostJiave remained. In the suburbs is the large East Indiancoolie village of St. James. These Hindus brought with them their wive> andfamilies, and their castes, costtmies, and cusloms. IfColumbus could visit Port of Spain to-da_\- he wouM
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