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Our equipment consisted of two barrels of alcohol, ten gallons of formalin, a 

 Baird collecting-net, having a quarter of an inch mesh, fifteen feet long and five 

 feet deep, a similar net forty-five feet long and seven feet deep, a net one hundred 

 and fifty feet long with one-inch mesh in the wings and half-inch mesh in the other 

 seventy-five feet, several gross of vials, several glass stoppered bottles, numerous 

 empty one-pound coffee-tins, several five-gallon galvanized iron cans with screw- 

 tops, one large galvanized iron can, buckets, etc. Kerosene tins were used in 

 shipping specimens home. 



Immediately upon my arrival I rented a house of two rooms named "Charity," 

 which stood between two others called "Faith" and "Hope." The preliminaries 

 of attending to the customs, moving in, making several trips to the bank and the 

 office of the Consul before my draft was accepted, making calls, and securing 

 transportation, consumed Monday and Tuesday, September 7th and 8th. On 

 Wednesday at 5 A.M. I visited the market, and from that time forward until 



Fig. 2. A trench in Georgetown. 



my return from the Kaieteur every calory of energy was consumed for the one 

 object of making the trip successful. 



Georgetown is but a few inches above high tide; parts of it, in fact, are below 

 tide. Many of the streets are provided with a wide central trench for drainage. 

 Some of these are provided with tide-locks. One canal brings water from the 

 Lamaha Conservancy, concernmg which a little more later. The trenches are 



