. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . and where the Indians used toland, coming over from Trinidad, is a few miles dis-tant, to the north. It is called Courland Bay, andhere the Indians dwelt—as evidenced by the manystone axes and arrowheads discovered here—wherethe rounded hills slope gently to the shore, where thecoral ledges inclose delightful bathing places, and thewaves lap quietly the yellow sands. Having secured the confirmation I sought—thatthe landing place of our hero was at or near thispoint, at the southern end of the island—my missionwas accomplished ; I mounted my mule again
. Crusoe's Island; a bird-hunter's story . and where the Indians used toland, coming over from Trinidad, is a few miles dis-tant, to the north. It is called Courland Bay, andhere the Indians dwelt—as evidenced by the manystone axes and arrowheads discovered here—wherethe rounded hills slope gently to the shore, where thecoral ledges inclose delightful bathing places, and thewaves lap quietly the yellow sands. Having secured the confirmation I sought—thatthe landing place of our hero was at or near thispoint, at the southern end of the island—my missionwas accomplished ; I mounted my mule again and de-parted for the plantation. Previous to my departure,however, the Governor of Tobago, at that time, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Frederick Gore (now deceased), invited A VISIT TO THE WORLD OUTSIDE. 207 me to dinner, where toasts were proposed, not only tothe Queen, but to the President of the United was then permitted to depart, no one knowing whenceI came or whither I went—only that my ostensibledestination was Man-o-war Buy. CHAPTEK XXI. THE FATNESS OF THE EARTH. An old library—Crown land for Thomas Ned—A home for myman in his old age—A suspicious intruder—A new delicacy—Frogs legs on toast—Crapaud hunting—Manacous andarmadillos—A fetich-protected American—The hurricane. The manager at the great house insisted uponmy stopping with him a month, but we compromisedon a week, although the temptations to stay werestrong and numerous. In the first place, he had a fineold library, or the remains of one, such as the plantersof the West Indies, in the rich and careless days ofslavery times, used to order from London, givingtheir agents carte blanche as to contents, but insistingon rich bindings and classical authors. Among thesuperabundant poets and novelists, however, I foundsome books on the history of the islands, and wasparticularly attracted by a manuscript volume refer-ring to the natural history of the West Indies. Itneed not detrac
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