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liills," as their charmingly-situated bungalow was called. Here 

 we made OLir home for several days and dwelt in exceeding 

 comfort. The house, built on a cleared hill top, set up above the 

 ground on substantial greenheart piers, fronted a river view 

 that was rarely beautiful. The gentle breeze and the cleared 

 land kept away the mosquitoes that might be found in the bush 

 below. On the slopes of the gentlj'-rolling hills about the planta- 

 tion house were plantains, bananas, pineapples, paw-paw, and an 

 infinite variety of fniit? and vegetables, tropical and sub-tropical. 



The Author T.\pi>in'g a Wild "Heve.\." 



" Close to the house were flower beds containing almost everything 

 in the way of flowers and shrubs that one could wish. 



I have called our host the Sisal Man, because ot the great 

 fields of bayonet-leaved plants that he had planted there, and 

 ■which were growing thriftily. He had also some rubber, not 

 much, but just enough to prove that Hcvea would grow there as 

 well as elsewhere, something that he was delighted to know, for 

 it is a curious feature of planting opinion that the man who 

 is accustomed to the tilling of the flat allnvials does not believe 

 that rolling highlands can by any possibility be cultivated. So, 

 too, he of the uplands considers all lowlands as swampy, sour, 

 and useful only for brick-making. The fact is, of course, that 



Ilcvca will grow on flat lands or rolling lands at:. a variety ot 

 altitudes, if only good soil, plenty of moisture, a wdlrdistributed 

 and abundant rainfall, and a certain surface drainage were 

 present, with, it goes without saying, a tropical temperature 

 added. Of the journeys over the cleared lands, of excursions 



Professor J. B. H.vrrison, ii..^^., c.m.g., f.i.c, f.c.s. 



through the jungle, up and down the river, of maps, photo- 

 graphs and. interviews with those who know the Hinterland, 

 there were many, and by the time we were obliged to return to 

 Georgetown I felt somewhat acquainted with British Guiana. I 

 forgot to say that we discovered a Hcvea growing wild at "'1 he 

 Hills" and got both seeds and rubber from it. 

 To disassociate this Hcvea from the Brasilicnsis I called it the 



COOLTE Qu.\RTERS AT^U.SCHEN. 



Guaydiiciisis. From the product of the latex it was ce'rtain that 

 it was not the former. Until some 'totanist shall examine it 

 in flowering time it may be called Guayaneusis, confnsa 

 Sfniceana or almost any of the lower types w^ithout fear of 

 successful contradiction. 'K^Or does it matter much anyway. 

 On the day of our returrt to^the city we'rbse'jtt daybreak, as 



