Excerpt from Five Years' Residence in the West Indies, Vol. 2 of 2 I Left Port of Spain on Friday, April 14th, to make what is called the tour of the island, that is, to go from the western coast to the Bande de l'Este, or eastern side, and from thence to the extreme south, crossing again directly to the north. From a variety of circumstances, this is a journey of considerable fatigue and some risk. The first stage is to Arima, sixteen miles. I was on horseback, having as a guide a trustworthy, clever, coloured man, on foot, who carried my sac de nuit on his head, for which service, to Nariva, forty-five miles, he was to receive six dollars, or one pound five shillings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.