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here, pledged the health of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria on her 
Accession, he being then acting Governor of the colony. He did the same on 
the occasion of her coronation. The Bunburies came from Devonshire and their 
estates here, Devonshire Castle, Walton Hall, Exemouth, and Dartmouth show the 
love for the Mother Country. A couple of dark blue Davenport dishes used at a 
dinner of the Colonel when freedom was proclaimed hang near by. The Bun- 
bury family is represented here by Mrs. E. A. V. Abraham and Mr. Bunbury, 
of the Police Magistrate’s Office. 
Who were the Dutch roysters at Fort Island? They threw their “dead 
men” in the river and now and then one of those quaint bottles come up from 
the vasty deep. Sir Rubert Boyce to whom I gave one said he had been un- 
able to trace the make or time of making. 
To Colonel Francis I am indebted for a beautiful comb , the property of Adi 
(lady) Cakaban, grand-daughter of Cakaban Rex, the last King of Fiji, and to the 
late Montague Flint for two carved wood combs of Princess Iftia, daughter of the 
King of Appatan in Colia River, West Africa. A couple of blue and white 
Davenport plates and the Mayor and Town Council’s poky offices in the Black- 
lock’s house where the B. G. Mutual Buildings now standin Robb Street vanish 
with the hand of time. Dr. Blacklock got them from his people who said they 
were used at Queen Victoria’s coronation by the under servants. 
George Hendrik Trotz, Director General in 1772-1781 of Essequebo and Demer- 
ara, stands responsible for a huge bowl which was dug up at Fort Island about 
30 years ago. He was a lawyer and advocate and his descendants, Trotz by 
name, have spent their all in claims against the Government in fights for the 
paternal estates. They are still on the quest for the Holy Grail and who says 
the blood of the old Advocate Governor wont tell in the end. 
An Auspach punch bowl and there you have Albertus Backer, Commander of 
Essequebo. The colony has never been without a Backer since and younger 
generations can remember Mrs. Backer of “‘the Saffon,”’ Backer of the Audit 
Office. Mrs. Canon May was a De Backer and a Backer still haunts the solitary 
wastes of Groete Creek, the family estate. Mrs. May has some miniatures of the 
family. Mr. Fred May, of the Treasury, has a look of the old Governor from a 
plate I had and which has been, unfortunately, stolen. 
A stone ware luncheon set of old Fiscal Heyleger, a man who loved law, 
shows how the law would run in families. Heyleger loved the law, and so did 
those he left behind him. Peter Heyleger Runnels Hill was a Magistrate, J. C. 
R. Hill, Town Clerk, and J. K. D. Hill, Police Magistrate. Heyleger came 
from St. Eustatius. 
A fine set of Spode from the daughter of Major Abraham Jacob van Imbize 
van Battenburg, Governor of Berbice, under the Dutch 1789-1796, under the 
English 1796-1802, shows you how royal those Dutchmen lived. The descend- 
ants of the old boy are the Stuart Camerons, Van Battenburg Cameron of Ver- 
sailles, Messrs. J. Bayne and the Joneses and the Bees. Mr. Wieting married 
“ Cameron.” 
