Excerpt from Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club, Vol. 2: April, 1894 Here is perhaps no locality in the neighbourhood of Port - of Spain which is more easily accessible ormorelikely to yield good results to lovers of Natural History than the vicinity of St. Ann's Valley. It was here that the writer of the following notes, and another member of the Club, elected to spend an off day in the early part of last year. A pleasant ride by one of the morning trams brought us very close to the scene of our day's work and pleasure, for Natural History means both to those who are really interested in it. Passing rapidly along over the first few hundred yards of the well kept road, bordered by grassy Savannas in which graze the ugly Indian buffaloes and sleepy but graceful young zebus, the off-spring of a stock which a paternal government has successfully introduced to improve the breed of Trinidad cattle, we could not but admire the clumps of bamboo* which adorn the banks of the Dry River and the high ground behind, still crowned by the ruins of the residence of the old Spanish Governors. Near the back of the Lunatic Asylum we crossed the fence separating the Savanna from the road and then the bed of the river, which was as dry as possible, though, probably, a week before the course of a raging torrent of storm-water, as perhaps it would be again to-morrow. The wire fence which divides the Savanna from the thick brush-wood covering the North-eastern part of the hill-side, first attracted our notice. Several large black antsi' were on the wires and uprights, busily running backwards and forwards in quest of food but what that food consisted of we could not then spare the time to discover. A little further along upon one of the wooden posts of the fence we founda small centipedejfi His great length and enormous number of legs, extraordinary even in a centipede, attracted more than usual attention. He appeared to be in trouble, for strange to say, even centipedes have their trials and do not always find the world all beer and skittles - perhaps it would be more correct to say all cockroaches and rotten wood. 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.