Trinidad relieved. December 1891. Friday. Said farewell to St. Lucie and left for Guyana at 7 am. We came through the town of Grand Paroisse, called since the Queen's Jubilee 'Victoria', but more generally known by the former name. In this town, as at St. Guoyane there are two two fine churches side by side, one the Anglican and the other the Roman Catholic. Here at the Police Station the Sergeant in charge stopped us and said he had received a telephonic message from S. Bennett - with whom we were to have stayed, that he could not put us up as much as his wife had probably presented him with a brand new baby. Upon therefore telephoned to the Sergeant at Pontecaux telling him to inform Mr. Hon. Douglas Alexander, at Spruce bank, that we should claim his hospitality for the night. Beyond Victoria we passed by a fine cacao estate belonging to Mr. Ross, who had recently left for Europe. We rode into the yard to see the Cacao drying house etc. In hot weather the Cacao dried in a home through which pass a series of pipes low connected a furnace, so that hot air and flame heat up the pipes and thereby dry the produce. The 'boncan' has a series of trays, running on wheels, on which the cacao is sun dried. In the packing house there were large quantities dried of cacao, and some tobacco being pressed into cakes. Mr. Ross