24 WANDERINGS IN 



FIRST extends more over level ground than otherwise. 



JOURNEY. 



- There are a few steep ascents and descents in it, 

 with a little brook running at the bottom of them ; 

 but they are easily passed over, and the fallen 

 trees serve for a bridge. 



You may reach the Essequibo with ease in a 

 day and a half; and so matted and interwoven 

 are the tops of the trees above you, that the sun 

 is not felt once all the way, saving where the 

 space which a newly fallen tree occupied lets in 

 his rays upon you. The forest contains an 

 abundance of wild hogs, lobbas, acouries, powisses, 

 maams, maroudis, and waracabas, for your nou- 

 rishment, and there are plenty of leaves to cover 

 a shed, whenever you are inclined to sleep. 

 The The soil has three-fourths of sand in it, till you 



Essequibo. 



come within half an hour's walk of the Essequibo, 

 where you find a red gravel and rocks. In this 

 retired and solitary tract, nature's garb, to all 

 appearance, has not been injured by fire, nor her 

 productions broken in upon by the exterminating 

 hand of man. 



Here the finest green-heart grows, and wallaba, 

 purple-heart, siloabali, sawari, buletre, tauronira, 

 and mora, are met with in vast abundance, far 

 and near, towering up in majestic grandeur, 

 straight as pillars, sixty or seventy feet high, 

 without a knot or branch. 



Traveller, forget for a little while the idea thou 

 hast of wandering farther on, and stop and look 



