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too we are shown—a very tall tree. Another Kam-a-dam broad leathery 
leaf. O hardy Maipuri! Home again, down hill this time, and almost 
as breathless to the mud-flatter—and breakfast. 
Our headquarters are, as you have divined, Kumaka, where there 
are—a little church whose foundations are of the little Dutch bricks of 
the old estate ; the remains of the brick tiled floor for drying the cocoa 
pods ; and an ancient little churchyard with antique graves, 
“ Mouldering and moss-grown through the lapse of years.” 
Thinking with Shelley, 
“ Forget the dead, the past? O yet 
“There are ghosts that may take revenge for it,” 
we walk reverently among these old tombs and copy the old 
inscriptions. 
“ Hier Leyt Begraven De Heer David Balk 
Raat, en Mester Planter OP de Plantagie 
Markay Is Gebooren Den 15 November, 1692 
en Gestorven Den 8 November, 1734.” 
Next is the grave of 
“ Monsieur Cornelis 
“ Rassche Insyn Leeven Raat de ser 
“ Colonie Mester Planter op Markay 
“ (born) 17.11.’68 (?) 
tah Lgcire 15 May, 1726... .. 
“ Syn sister Eliesabeth Rasche born 19.6.94. 
also 
“John Rasschen born 1692 
“ died 1696 (overlenden).” 
“ Catharina Hellinck Hays Vrouw Van 
‘“ Monsieur Nicolaes Rassche 
“ Died 6 Maert 1699 
1c ee | Naesti linus.) 
Monsieur Nicolaes Rassche 
born 1649 
died 12 Feb. 1722. 
Other tombs there are ; but their inscriptions are undecipherable. 
Meanwhile our estimable guide has brought round his corial and at 
2 p.m. we embark for a paddle in the Ituni Creek which flows into the 
Berbice on the left side opposite to the Wikki. 
