24 TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 



FIG. 1. MAP OF COASTAL BRITISH GUIANA 



whit of beauty, nor the people aught of their whole-souled 

 sympathy and generous hospitality. 



We found a house and servants awaiting us, and here 

 we made our headquarters. We began work in the Gardens, 

 but soon found that this and the surrounding country, how- 

 ever well adapted to certain forms of life and to sugar plan- 

 tations, offered too limited a field for our investigation. I 

 undertook a series of short trips in various directions, radiat- 

 ing from Georgetown as fingers radiate from the palm of a 

 hand. And again came the temptation to select one place 

 or another as being almost all we could desire. We found 

 interesting Indian villages up the Demerara with good sec- 

 ondgrowth jungle close at hand; far beyond the Essequibo 



