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inthe bush. Itis always advisable when walking through 
the bush in company with others who may have guns 
with them, to satisfy oneself that the guns are not loaded. 
A breech loading gun can easily be charged, if necessity 
or opportunity to fire a shot should arise, and when the 
necessity or opportunity is past the charge if not fired 
should be w ithdrawn. . 
The claims I visited seem, from an examination of 
BRown’s map of the colony, to be in the same line as 
the Barima, Barama, Puruni (Mara-Mara) and Potaro 
diggings, and if the positions of these different fields are 
correctly defined on the chart it appears that there is 
a well marked belt of auriferous country running about 
25 deg. West of North which if continued further south- 
ward slightly to the westward, may prove to be at 
its richest in the Canuku mountains. 
Taking it for granted that the above named fields 
are in one and the same belt, it may not be con- 
jeGtured unreasonably that the rich gold-bearing quartz 
formations of the Barama distri€&t will be found to 
traverse the Cuyuni and other more southern localities 
also. 
The permanence of the Industry in the Cuyuni will of 
course depend largely on the discovery of such a forma- 
tion; and it will not be out of place here to remark for 
the benefit of those who may some day wish to purchase 
quartz mining properties there, that it is always advisable 
to have a report on the same by an expert, quite inde- 
pendent of any one employed by or for those who are 
anxious to sell the same properties to would-be purchasers. 
