Sight-seeing in South America . - is an bjiglish free port,and the lack of duty makes dress goods very cheap. The island exports a large amount of tro]Mcal productslike chocolate beans, sugar, bananas, and ])ineap])les. 26 Sight-Seeing in South America The exports of cacao or chocolate bean annually amountto almost ten million dollars. We saw a number oflarge warehouses filled with these beans. Trinidad is the wonder island of the West native writer tersely puts it: We have lakes ofpitch, streams of tar, oysters growing on trees, crabsthat climb trees and feed on the fruit, an anim
Sight-seeing in South America . - is an bjiglish free port,and the lack of duty makes dress goods very cheap. The island exports a large amount of tro]Mcal productslike chocolate beans, sugar, bananas, and ])ineap])les. 26 Sight-Seeing in South America The exports of cacao or chocolate bean annually amountto almost ten million dollars. We saw a number oflarge warehouses filled with these beans. Trinidad is the wonder island of the West native writer tersely puts it: We have lakes ofpitch, streams of tar, oysters growing on trees, crabsthat climb trees and feed on the fruit, an animal resem-. By 3Iiss Ihirullui llnrluralt A Contented Trio bling a fish that produces its young alive, a fish that enter-tains us with a trumpet, and another kind that is cladin a complete coat of armor. For lunch at the Queens Park Hotel we ate some raw03Sters that grow on trees. They were very small, buthad a good fiavor. They attach themselves to the rootsof the mangrove tree on the shore of the sea, and whenthe tide goes out they are left u]) in the trees. Trinidad 27 In the rivers are the fierce carib fish about the size ofa perch that have two sharp rows of teeth, and a fewelectric eels that are common to Venezuela. A schoolof electric eels will so shock cattle or people swimmingthat they will be temporarily paralyzed. It is said thata revolutionary A^enezuelan army, fording a stream, meta school of these eels, and were shocked so that the armywas put out of commission. In the wet season, taran-tulas, centipedes, vampires, lizards, and serpents were tliere in the dry season, so th
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