Note the presence of a trading system.............with the Taino Indians..............Trinidad. and T................A Nazi asked Pele where he learned to play soccer like that.................and the great Brazilian said......."In the streets of Trinidad"...........in Victory.............a 1970s movie...




Of these people those that dwell upon the branches of the Orinoque, called Capuri, and Macureo, are for the most part carpenters of canoas; for they make the most and fairest canoas; and sell them into Guiana for gold and into Trinidad for Tabacco, in the excessive taking whereof they exceed all nations.
On the banks of these rivers were divers sorts of fruits good to eat, flowers and trees of such variety as were sufficient to make ten volumes of Herbals; we relieved ourselves many times with the fruits of the country, and sometimes with fowl and fish. We say birds of all colours, some carnation, some crimson, orange-tawny, purple, watchet (pale blue), and of all other sorts, both simple and mixed, and it was unto us a great good-passing of the time to behold them, besides the relief we found by killing some store of them with our fowling-pieces; without which, having little or no bread, and less drink, but only the thick and trouble water of the river, we had been in a very hard case.