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The Journey That Is Chacachacare - Part 1/3 a Personal Account by Hans E.A.Boos Quarterly Bulletin of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists’ Club January - March 2010 Issue No: 1/2010 The journey that is Chacachacare - part 1/3 A personal account by Hans E.A.Boos Several years ago I was asked, by Yasmin Comeau of the National Herbarium, U.W.I St. Augustine to write a short history titled “Human occupation and impact on the island of Chacachacare‖ ( which constitutes the main body of the account below), which was to be a part of a larger work on the vegetation of the island of Chacachacare. But, in that I do not know if it was ever published in any part or its entirety, I thought I would share it, and some more recent additions and observations, with the members of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists‘ Club, a club of which I have been proud to be a member since the middle of 1960. Chacachacare holds a special place in my interest, which interest will A part of the Leper colony be elaborated on below, and which was again sparked during a recent Photo Hans E. A. Boos excursion of the Club to this island on Sunday March 28th 2010. (Continued on page 3) Page 2 THE FIELD NATURALIST Issue No. 1/2010 Inside This Issue Quarterly Bulletin of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists’ Club 1 Cover January - March 2010 The Journey that is Chacachacare - A personal account by Hans E. A. Boos Editor Shane T. Ballah 7 Club Monthly Field Trip Report Editorial Committee La Table 31- 01 - 2010 Palaash Narase, Reginald Potter - Reginald Potter Contributing writers Christopher K. Starr, Hans E. A. Boos, 9 Feature - Botany In a Blaze of Glory Lester Doodnath, Reginald Potter - Christopher K. Starr Photographs Hans E. A. Boos, Lester Doodnath, 11 Feature - Serial Reginald Potter, Valerie Thumb, Pungent is as pungent does - Christopher K. Starr Design and Layout Eddison Baptiste, Shane T. Ballah 12 The Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists‘ Club is a A Tale of Two Lizards - Hans E. A. Boos non-profit, non-governmental organisation Management Committee 2010 - 2011 13 Awards for outstanding contributions Botany 2008 President ……………... Shane T. Ballah 796-3335 - Lester Doodnath Vice-President ……….. Palaash Narase 751-3672 14 Photo Collage Secretary …………….. Eddison Baptiste 695 –2264 Club Christmas Lunch 2009 Assist-Secretary ……... Sarah Harris 718-9165 Photos—Valerie Thumb Treasurer ……………. Selwyn Gomes 624-8017 Committee members ... Dan Jaggernauth 659-2795 Editor’s note Reginald Potter 694-1160 Many thanks to all who contributed and assisted Francis Castillo 638-9137 with articles and photographs. Contact us! Website: http://www.ttfnc.org CONTACT THE EDITOR Postal: The Secretary, TTFNC, c/o P.O. Box 642, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed in this bulletin are those of the respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion and views of Web Email Facebook Downloads the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists‘ Club Page 3 THE FIELD NATURALIST Issue No. 1/2010 The Journey that is Chacachacare A personal account by Hans E.A.Boos Feature (Continued from page 1) as manchineel, silk cotton, butterwood, and Christmas So this expanded account will also include my personal Hope. connection to this island which plays a part in my an- cestry, and which has afforded me a lot of pleasure in Columbus sailed south and west again, along the south the years past. of the Paria Peninsula, searching for evidence that the land he had named Ysla de Gracia was in fact an island, and after eight days of failure he turned around and COLUMBUS. headed east once more and, according to Morison, he When Christopher Columbus sailed his fleet crossed the Grand Boca and anchored in the south around Icacos Point in the South West of Trini- eastern bay of Chacachacare Island. dad on August 2, 1498, if the day was a clear Whether Columbus really crossed the treacherous one, and if there were no rain squalls to the Grande Boca and anchored in the bay of Chacachacare, North, for August is the mid point in the rainy and then sent a boat to Huevos (El Delphin) to a bay season in Trinidad, he would have sighted the there to collect water, and to record a village with gap in the ridge of mountains on the northern enough small houses to warrant the name of El Puerto horizon. This gap, this passage, would have de las Cabanas (Harbour of the Cabins), is belied today been the Grand Boca, between The Paria Pen- by the lack of any standing or running water or space insula of Venezuela and Chacachacare, the for a small village, on Huevos, a small, and very dry, westernmost island of the Boca Islands. island. The gaps between the other islands are much nar- The recent maps of Chacachacare show a seasonal rower and the first and third Bocas are partially ob- stream running through the lowlands in Sanders Bay, scured from the viewpoint where Columbus anchored, and it is here that Columbus, if in fact he did anchor in in the lee of the Los Gallos rocks on the north side of Chacachacare Bay, would have found any water that Icacos Point. might have been available, rather that to have his men make a foray across the treacherous third Boca to Morison (1942 p.255) states that Columbus ― could search for water on the very much drier island of see thirty-five miles to the northward across the gulf of Huevos. Paria, the jagged Cerro Mejillones on the Venezuelan Today, any streams or gullies on Chacachacare only promontory…‖ and thinking that this land was another have water in them during heavy rains during the rainy island, he named it Ysla de Gracia. season which lasts from July to December. All settle- ments on this island, over time, have had to depend on Sailing dead north, Columbus made landfall on the imported water stored in cisterns and tanks, or rain- south of the Paria Peninsula and anchored in a small water off roofs for their water supply. bay near the easternmost point. According to Morri- There are the remains of several small dams in the ra- son (p.258) this bay is possibly Bahía Celeste. From vines high up on the slopes on the island that were here Columbus could see Chacachacare Island and he built by the earliest settlers in the late 1700s, the water named it El Caracol (the Snail). From his anchorage in from one of these small storage ponds being chan- Bahía Celeste he could not see the other Bocas or in- neled to cisterns built beneath the main house on a dividual islands which, from this point, must have ap- windy nearby ridge. peared as a single mass of land .But, from the fact that he named Huevos, El Delphin, and did not distinguish Monos as an island, it would appear that, as he sailed AMERINDIANS. north from Icacos, he could discern the second and These islands, whether they were inhabited by the in- third Bocas. digenous Amerindians on a permanent basis or were Morison (p.260) lists some trees found on the islands (Continued on page 4) Page 4 THE FIELD NATURALIST Issue No. 1/2010 The journey that is Chacachacare A personal account by Hans E.A.Boos Feature (Continued from page 3) vocate and Secretary of the Colony of Tobago re- used as temporary fishing and turtling camps we are porting to the directors of the Chartered West left to speculate. Columbus‘ possible sighting of some India Company of Amsterdam stated ―In the Bocas huts on Huevos and the finding of a prehistoric ce- del Drago are found some islands where there is ramic potsherd odorno (Bullbrook 1925, in fresh water and they are all uninhabited where Boomert1984 p.30) in a small cave in Perruquier Bay from the months of March to November inclusive, (now called La Chapelle Bay) on Chacachacare, is evi- dence that the islands in the Bocas were from time to multitudes of turtles and sea parrots come up into time visited or domiciled by prehistoric people. Dis- the sandy bays.‖(THS #137). Ousiel was either covery of more pottery in Sanders (an anglicized ver- repeating hearsay of the time in error or was re- sion of Spanish, Sanda) Bay points to a more extensive porting a condition that has not existed since. settlement than had been suspected of native Amerin- dians on the island, (Boomert 2000) where possibly a Around 1771, according to a family tradition, a fishing village was established for enough time for the man named Geraldine Carige, a refugee from the inhabitants to create a substantial kitchen midden in Catholic persecutions in Ireland, first went to which was deposited the broken and discarded pot- Spain where, falling sick, he was recommended the tery. balmier West Indies as a health cure. Possibly in Apart from the occasional use of the local trees to the service of the Spanish military, he settled in supply firewood and building materials for whatever structures were needed to sustain either temporary or the island of Margarita, a Spanish possession and permanent housing on Chacachacare, there was proba- health resort, where he recovered and married. bly no substantial deleterious effect on the vegetation Due to some unspecified service to the Spanish on the island by the Amerindians. Crown or authorities, sometime before 1791, Carige was granted the Island of Chacachacare. He THE SPANISH. had possibly come to Trinidad earlier, seeking ref- uge from the gathering storm of the revolution The Spanish occupation of mainland Trinidad over brewing on the mainland of Venezuela.
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