194 Timehri. 



Our mangrove (Rhizophora Mangle) may prove of use a8 supply of 

 bark for tanning purposes. 



Our carludovicas may produce a Panama hat industry. We may 

 produce, in time, our own puncheon staves and supersede the oak rum- 

 puncheons and so build up a large trade in connexion with our rum 

 industry. 



Our lovely furniture woods have but to be seen to be admired ; our 

 Wallabas (Eperva spp.) furnish a class of shingles for house-building that 

 are recognised already. Our pastoral and cattle industries are crying out 

 for the right type of man. 



In short we have attractions which are by no means common to all 

 tropical countries and which for diversity and interest are perhaps un- 

 equalled — ranging from Baboon skins to numberless Mora sleepers. 



In conclusion there is room for us all. — European, negro, East Indian 

 or Chinese, scientist, technical man, labourer, mechanic. 



And in spite of malaria and insect pests, a man with ordinary and 

 sensible precautions can find real pleasure and interest in British Guiana, 

 where unlike Mr. Mantalini, one need not find life to be " one demd 

 horrid grind." 



That rubber and limes can and do grow successfully is seen by the 

 reproduction of pictures kindly taken by Mr. G. E. Bodkin, B.A., (Cantab), 

 our Government Biologist, whose cleverness with the camera is only 

 equalled by his knowledge of such like parasites as Amblyomma dissimile. 



That our lime fruits are large and luscious, we think we may fairly 

 claim — the citric acid contents are above the average as is also the yield 

 in essential or distilled oils, while 8 gallons of raw juice are usually 

 obtained from a barrel of fruit. 



The class of man we have no room for in British Guiana, is the man 

 saturated with race prejudice, who judges a man by the mere pigment 

 underlying his skin ; the stirrer up of strife — setting class against class 

 and encouraging racial feelings. 



Nor do we want the visionary, like the man in Gulliver's Travels who 

 spent eight yeais upon a project for extracting sunbeams out ot cucum- 

 bers, nor yet again Cowper's type " dropping buckets into empty wells 

 and growing old in drawing nothing up." 



We can take all the right type of labourer or colonist that we can 

 get. There is abundant room, — and room at the top, too, for the man 

 who is not afraid of hard work, has grit and a determination to get on 

 which will not be denied — be he gentleman's son, labourer, mechanic, or 

 the humblest cutlass weeder. Each has a chance in his own sphere, and 

 if success does not come the way of us all, we can at least try to deserve 

 it, which is all that mortal man can do. 



