Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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48 Carriacou. 21 May, 1891. Route and got an early breakfast. Mr Durant very kindly gave me two fine stone implements found in the island. He has one that he found in Grenada with the wooden handle attached, but the man who discovered it unfortunately broke away and destroyed the interesting wood part of the weapon— which has probably been used by its first owner several hundred years ago to crack his enemies' skulls with. This is a magnificent piece of the Grenadines from Millener's. To the N.W. lie little Tobago, little St Vincent, and little Martinique— thelast mentioned sending up a fine central sugar-loaf peak toward the sky. Away to the south one can see Green Island, Margos, the Tobago Cays and Cayouan. The scenery positively lovely. We bid good by to Mr Durant, got on our ponies and rode along the ridge on which the house was built toward the south in order to visit a small village in the quarter called Bellean, and very well called to. The people's houses are some— what frail in appearance being made of mud and cattle. There are no large indigenous trees in the island so that timber is pretty expensive, and most of the people are poor. Leaving Bel- an we rode down the hill toward the west coast to visit a very large village called Boyles, indeed the largest and most populous village in Carriacou. The roads are exceedingly constructed, and