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wourali poison. It was not intended, when 

 this second sally was planned in England, to have 

 visited Stabroek again by the route here described. 

 The plan was, to have ascended the Amazons 

 from Para, and got into the Rio Negro, and from 

 thence to have returned towards the source of the 

 Essequibo, in order to examine the crystal moun- 

 tains, and look once more for Lake Parima, or the 

 White Sea ; but on arriving at Cayenne, the 

 current was running with such amazing rapidity 

 to leeward, that a Portuguese sloop, which had 

 been beating up towards Para for four weeks, was 

 then only half way. Finding, therefore, that a 

 beat to the Amazons would be long, tedious, and 

 even uncertain, and aware that the season for pro- 

 curing birds in fine plumage had already set in, 

 I left Cayenne in an American ship for Para- 

 maribo, went through the interior to the Coryntin, 

 stopped a few days in New Amsterdam, and pro- 

 ceeded to Demerara. If, gentle reader, thy pa- 

 tience be not already worn out, and thy eyes half 

 closed in slumber, by perusing the dull adven- 

 tures of this second sally, perhaps thou wilt 

 pardon a line or two on Demerara ; and then we 

 will retire to its forests, to collect and examine 

 the economy of its most rare and beautiful birds, 

 and give the world a new mode of preserving 

 them. 



stabroek. Stabroek, the capital of Demerara, has been 

 rapidly increasing for some years back; and if 



