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DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Qué hará luego mi padre? BRUNO. ¿Qué? Encerrar a usted bajo llave si no desiste.... DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Encerrarme ... a mí!... Bruno, está visto ... me quieres precipitar ... pues bien ... lo lograrás ... ¿ves este papel?... BRUNO. ¿Y qué hay en ese cucurucho? DOÑA MATILDE. Píldoras. BRUNO. ¿De jalapa? DOÑA MATILDE. De rejalgar. BRUNO. ¡Jesús mil veces!
Thus there are two rivers and a mountain named Yaque, several mountains named Cucurucho, a mountain-range and two cities named Macoris while in a host of minor instances rivers, mountains and districts in different parts of the country have identical names. The repetition of names seems all the more curious as the Dominicans have not hesitated to change historic names of towns and streets.
The exportation of tobacco, coffee, sugar and wax, by lawful and illicit means, amounts to fourteen millions of piastres, according to the actual price of those articles. In every loaf or reversed cone the upper part yields the white sugar; the middle part the yellow sugar, or quebrado; and the lower part, or point of the cone, the cucurucho. They generally weigh an arroba after refining.
It is this last which is more particularly called the Cucurucho de Turimiquiri, and which is considered to be higher than the mountain of the Brigantine, so well known by the sailors who frequent the coasts of Cumana.
We measured, by angles of elevation, and a basis, rather short, traced on the round summit, the peak of Cucurucho, which was about 350 toises higher than our station, so that its absolute height exceeded 1050 toises. The view we enjoyed on the Turimiquiri is of vast extent, and highly picturesque.
The dense jungle covering the rugged slopes of these giants has so far baffled the few attempts at exploration of their summits. To the west of Yaque Peak is Mt. Cucurucho, 7400 feet high, and to the northwest Mt. Entre los Rios, 8000 feet and Mt. Gallo, 8200 feet in height. It must be remembered that in the absence of any careful measurements, the altitudes given are mere approximations.
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