‘‘A Tramp with Redskins.” 
By Everard F, im Thurn, M.A., C.M.G. 
(Note.—It almost seems that I owe an apology for inserting the 
following paper in a Guiana Journal. It was written at home, 
although it has never been used at home; and there is much in it 
which will perhaps be but a twice told tale to our colonial readers. But 
1 am under an old promise to contribute to this number of Timehri, and 
I have no leisure to write anything specially for the occasion.) 
COLUMBUS, four centuries ago, was the first 
pees §=white man who ever sailed along the * Wild 
Coast, ” as Guiana was once called, and first saw the 
long line of mangrove trees, perfeétly level and unbroken, 
which was, and it might almost be said is, all that is visible 
of that land from the sea. It is certain, however, that, just 
a century later, Sir WALTER RALEIGH, in his adventurous 
search for the ‘‘ Golden City of Manoa,” otherwise called 
“El Dorado,” saw this same mangrove fringe, and 
believed that the objeét of his search lay behind it. 
During the three centuries which have elapsed since Sir 
WALTER’S day, many men, of various nationalities, have 
seen this mangrove fringe; and some, having cut down 
some of the trees, have even established themselves onthe 
coast-lands, and have there been very busy and successful 
in producing the household article known to all as 
Demerara crystals. 
But, from the time of the discovery of Guiana even to 
this day, few indeed have penetrated very far within the 
mangrove fringe ; none, at any rate until the last year or 
