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TKOI'K AI. WILD LIFK IN BRITISH GUIANA 



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FIG. 7. BARTICA WITH ITS SINGLE STREET 



T'hi/h, hji W . I! 



loi- the .sugur mill ol' the l^laiitation Diiineiiburg — this being 

 of interest because the plantation was exactly on the site 

 ul' the present Kalacoon House. 



After the desertion of Kvk-over-al and Vrvheid, the 

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

 years we hear nothing further of this ])art of the coiuitry. 

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

 tion was established at the place known to the Indians as 

 Hartika or Red Karth. 



I offer witliout comment a seriously written paragraph 

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

 of ^Mission Life in British Cxuiana." It is written of the 

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

 air exhilarating and balniy, the climate delightfully equable 

 and tlie face of Nature most charming; but what a catalogue 



