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to Mount Everard, about fifty miles up the river. Beyond Mount 

 Everard a launch runs to Arakaka when there is sufficient water in the 

 river, or as far as Koriabo only when the river is low. The upper parts 

 of the Barima River beyond the Eclijjse Falls are only accessible by boat. 



Arakaka is a small settlement consisting of a police-station, a gold- 

 station, a hospital, a hotel and some shops, from which a road runs 

 across to the Towakaima Falls on the Barama River, a distance of 

 twenty-nine miles, with a branch line to Mazawini situated lower 

 down the Barama River, where there is a gold station and a shop. 



From Moi'awhanna two small launches run to Mazawini when there 

 is sufficient water in the Bai^ama River to allow them to do so, but 

 when the water in that river is low they can only go as far as the 

 mouth of the Hoori Creek, where there is a landing, whence a path 

 leads to near the head of that tril^utary. Under these conditions of the 

 Barama River many of the miners in the district are compelled to 

 obtain their supplies from Arakaka by means of the Barima-Barama 

 Road. 



There is an alternative route to the gold-fields of the North-Westeri\ 

 district. A steamer leaves Georgetown each week-day morning and 

 I^roceeds to Suddie. From that place there is a good road to Anna 

 Regina, whence a canal or waterpath leads to the Tapacooma Lake. 

 On the southern side of the lake there is a portage by which boats 

 obtain access to the Tapakuma Creek, which flows into the Pomeroon 

 River near Pickersgill. From this place the journey is, for a distance 

 of about thirty miles, down the Pomeroon River to its mouth. A 

 voyage of from two to three hours across the bay into which the 

 Pomeroon discharges its waters leads to the mouth of the Moruka 

 Ptiver. Some hours' boat journey up this river leads to the itabo or 

 waterpath which connects the upper waters of the Moruka with those 

 of the Bara-bara, which leads into the Barramanni, a tributary of the 

 Waini River, which joins it at Barramanni, whence a journey may be 

 made up either the Barama or the Barima Rivers, as already described. 



