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a surgeon by bleeding him. While they were at breakfast a tent-boat 

 appeared, whereupon Waterton went do .vn to the landing- and disputed the 

 passage of the officers of justice, who were in search of the outlaw, and 

 thus gave time for him to escape. For this Waterton was summoned 

 before Governor Oarmichael. to whom he made a very plausible excuse. 



The Governor was then clearing out the Augean Stables, otherwise 

 public offices. He would tell an official that he was coming- round next 

 day. which sometimes gave him a fright. In one case the official was 

 well aware that he could not make out a just balance sheet and said he 

 would die rather than take a false oath. He therefore got away to 

 Edmonstone's, from whence he appears to have fled to the interior with 

 a view to reach the Spanish or Portuguese territory. 



It was in 1812 when Governor Carmichael made such a stir, and in 

 the same year Anne Mary Edmonstone was born at Warrow's Place. She 

 was spoken of later as the second daughter ; the others were Eliza and 

 Helen. It is stated that Charles Waterton liked her as a child and it is 

 probable that he may have witnessed her christening and held her in his 

 arms. As however this was the time when he commenced his first 

 journey as told in the " Wanderings" he could have seen little of his 

 future bride before his return In that journey he reached Fort St. 

 Joaquim, but suffered so much from fever that he almost despaired of 

 ever coming back. -However, it abated; his spirits rallied, and he 

 marched again : and after delays and inconveniences he reached the house 

 of his worthy friend, Mr. Edmonstone." 



Waterton left Demerara soon afterwards, and returned in 181(1 The 

 following year Charles Edmonstone retired to Scotland with his wife and 

 three daughters, where he bought Cai'dross Park and settled down. Both 

 he and his wife, however, died within a few years, leaving the girls, who 

 were then at Bruges for their education, in charge of his friend. 



Waterton came again to Demerara in 1820 on the " Glenbervie," a 

 famous barque, with a captain of sufficient note to be mentioned in the 

 Scotch jest-book. " The Laird of Logan." 



Captain John Jones sailed the ''Glenbervie' from Greenock to 

 Demerara for nearly twenty years and wore out more canvas than any 

 other two vessels of the same burthen. While other commanders were 

 reefing in prospect of gales Jones kept up his sails to prove the strength 

 of their fabric. " Come away, my lads," he would cry. "it is as well t<» 

 go to the bottom at twelve knots as at eight. 



It is said that he once took two young fellows for Demerara where 

 they expected to do well as overseers. But the weather was so rough 

 and the winds so contrary that the passengers soon felt disgusted with the 

 sea. Before they were well on the voyage one of them said : 



•• I say Captain, are we at Madeira yet ? Because, ye sec we want 

 to be pitten out there, and we'll gang the rest ot every fit." 



