The present Spanish landowners of Trinidad, be it remembered always, do not derive from those old ruffians, but from noble and ancient families, who settled in the island during the seventeenth century, bringing with them a Spanish grace, Spanish simplicity, and Spanish hospitality, which their descendants have certainly not lost.

Were it my habit to 'put people into books,' I would gladly tell in these pages of charming days spent in the company of Spanish ladies and gentlemen.

But I shall only hint here at the special affection and respect with which they--and, indeed, the French Creoles likewise-- are regarded by Negro and by Indian.
For there are a few Indians remaining in the northern mountains, and specially at Arima--simple hamlet-folk, whom you can distinguish, at a glance, from mulattoes or quadroons, by the tawny complexion, and by a shape of eye, and length between the eye and the mouth, difficult to draw, impossible to describe, but discerned instantly by any one accustomed to observe human features.

Many of them, doubtless, have some touch of Negro blood, and are the offspring of 'Cimarons'-- 'Maroons,' as they are still called in Jamaica.

These Cimarons were Negroes who, even in the latter half of the sixteenth century (as may be read in the tragical tale of John Oxenham, given in Hakluyt's Voyages), had begun to flee from their cruel masters into the forests, both in the Islands and in the Main.