EEMARKS 



"Incertus, quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detirr. " 



Kind and gentle reader, if the journey in quest 

 of the wourali-poison has engaged thy attention, 

 probably thou mayest recollect that the traveller 

 took leave of thee at Fort St. Joachim, on the 

 Rio Branco. Shouldest thou wish to know what 

 befell him afterwards, excuse the following umn- 

 teresting narrative. 



Having had a return of fever, and aware that 

 the farther he advanced into these wild and 

 lonely regions, the less would be the chance of 

 regaining his health; he gave up all idea of pro- 

 ceeding onwards, and went slowly back towards 

 the Demerara, nearly by the same route he had 

 come. 



On descending the falls in the Essequibo, which 

 form an oblique line quite across the river, it was 

 resolved to push through them, the downward 

 stream being in the canoe's favour. At a little 

 distance from the place, a large tree had fallen 

 into the river, and in the meantime the canoe was 

 lashed to one of its branches. "^ 



The roaring of the water was dreadful; it 

 foamed and dashed over the rocks with a tre- 

 mendous spray, like breakers on a lee-shore, 

 threatening destruction to whatever approached 

 it. You would have thought, by the confusion it 



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