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TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 



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FIG. 7. BARTICA WITH ITS SINGLE STREET 



for the sugar mill of the Plantation Duinenbiirg — this being 

 of interest because the plantation was exactly on the site 

 of the present Kalacoon House. 



After the desertion of Kyk-over-al and Vryheid, the 

 jungle closed in once more, and for more than one hundred 

 years we hear nothing further of this part of the country. 

 Then began a brief religious era, and in 1829 a mission sta- 

 tion was established at the place known to the Indians as 

 Bartika or lied Earth. 



I offer without comment a seriously written paragraph 

 from a volume by the Rev. W. T. Veness on "Ten Years 

 of Mission Life in British Guiana." It is written of the 

 region immediately around Bartica. "The sky is clear, the 

 air exhilarating and balmy, the climate delightfully equable 

 and the face of N ature most charming ; but what a catalogue 



