xii CONTENTS 



CHAPTEE III 



Operation of the Wourali — Its effects on the Ai, or Three- 

 toed Sloth — Death resembling sleep — A poisoned Ox — 

 Poison proportionate to size of animal — Alleged antidotes 

 An Indian killed by his own arrow — Ligatures and the 

 knife — Descent of the Essequibo — Skill of the boatman — 

 The Buccaneers — Tertian ague — ^Experiments with Wour- 

 ali — ^ Value of a ligature — Artificial respiration — Long life 

 and quiet death of Wouralia — When good King Arthur 

 ruled this land— Eeturn of health 90-98 



Eemaeks 99-105 



SECOND JOURNEY 



CHAPTEE I 



From Liverpool to Pernambuco — Stormy petrels — Tropical 

 zoology — Flying fish — Bonito, Albicore, and "Dolphin" 

 — Frigate bird — Arrival at Pernambuco — The expelled 

 Jesuit — Pombal, the Captain-General — Southey's history of 

 Brazil — Botanical garden — Sangre do Buey — Eattlesnake 

 Narrow escape — Eainy — Sail for Cayenne — Shark-catch- 

 ing 106-122 



CHAPTEE II 



Arrival at Cayenne — Flamingos — Curlews, &c. — ^Vegetable pro- 

 ductions of Cayenne — La Gabrielle — Cock of the Eock — 

 Grand Gobe-mouche — Surinam — The Coryntin — New Am- 

 sterdam — Stabroek, now George-town — Produce of Dem- 

 erara — Slavery — A traveler's necessaries — Walking bare- 

 foot — The best costume — Humming-birds — Cotinga — Cam- 

 panero, or Bell-bird — Toucans, or Toucanets — Beak of the 

 Toucan — Evanescence of the colours — The only mode of 

 preserving them 123-141 



