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made a most unsatisfafory journey. It is not my 
intention now to dwell upon this disastrous trip, but to 
describe a much pleasanter experience which I under- 
went in March and April last. Reaching Bartica per | 
steamer on the 1st of March, I was able, thanks to the 
special arrangements made by Messrs. FORBES & Co. 
of that place, to start in good time the following day, 
with a thoroughly sober crew, captain and bow-man ; 
and camped at the foot of the first fall. Proceeding 
thence onwards through eight different falls I passed the 
first magazines at Tiger Island, on the left bank, which 
belong to claims working at the sources of streams 
tributary to the Groote Creek. The next camps are at 
the foot of the Arrawak Matope Fall and known as the 
Perseverance landing, on the right bank. Above the 
Arrawak Matope, there is a long stretch of still water 
free from falls till three small rapids are met with 
named Simiri, Tukuri and Mutusi, then another piece 
of still water to the Stop Off and Tinamu or Maam 
falls and again still water to the Payuca fall and 
thence the next rapids are those of Olupikai, or 
Popikai, near which my destination the Pap Island 
landing is situated. Having had to camp all day Sunday 
at Arrawack Matope and therefore not including it as a 
travelling day, I managed the whole distance from 
Bartica—some sixty miles as shown by BROWN’S map of 
the colony—in five and a half days; and on my return 
journey in a day anda half, having on the latter occasion, 
the stream in my favour. Arrived at the river end of 
the bush path to the placers which I had come to survey 
1 found the ground surrounding the various magazines 
in the usual rather unsanitary state. Each of the store- 
