only those who at home enjoyed social position and some private
fortune would be admitted into this select circle.

For itself the state reserved a monopoly of the guano, of the turtles,
and of the buried treasure. And both to discover the treasure and to
encourage settlers to dig and so cultivate the soil, a percentage of
the treasure was promised to the one who found it.

Any one purchasing ten $200 bonds was entitled to a free passage
to the island, and after a year, should he so desire it, a return trip.
The hard work was to be performed by Chinese coolies, the
aristocracy existing beautifully, and, according to the prospectus,
to enjoy _"vie d'un genre tout nouveau, et la recherche de
sensations nouvelles."_

To reward his subjects for prominence in literature, the arts, and
the sciences, his Majesty established an order of chivalry. The
official document creating this order reads:


"We, James, Prince of Trinidad, have resolved to commemorate
our accession to the throne of Trinidad by the institution of an
Order of Chivalry, destined to reward literature, industry, science,
and the human virtues, and by these presents have established and
do institute, with cross and crown, the Order of the Insignia of the
Cross of Trinidad, of which we and our heirs and successors shall
be the sovereigns.

"Given in our Chancellery the Eighth of the month of December,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and of our reign, the