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series of notes which he so well describes as like " the 

 departing voice of a midnight murdered vi6lim." Daddy 

 QUASHIE is gone, but there are plenty of his successors 

 to guide the traveller through the forest, and help the 

 huntsman in finding out the lurking places of the acourie 

 and labba. At Soesdyk the descendants of that LouiSA 

 Backer who prepared Waterton'S dose of castor oil, 

 are doing business as boat-builders, while some of the older 

 people still remember having heard of the traveller. 



Charles Waterton sailed from Portsmouth in the 

 ship Fame, Captain BRAND, on November the 29th, 1804, 

 and arrived in Stabroek after a passage of about six 

 weeks, that is, in January, 1805. His uncle, CHRIS- 

 TOPHER Waterton, was proprietor of the two planta- 

 tions La Jalousie and Fellowship on the West Coast, and 

 his father having lately bought an estate for the benefit 

 of his younger children, CHARLES w'as sent out to 

 superintend the property. His uncle appears to have 

 gone to England soon afterwards, leaving his nephew in 

 charge of La Jalousie and Fellowship as q. q. or attorney, 

 in which capacity he a6led until 181 2, with the exception 

 of short intervals during which he made one or two 

 trips to England. 



How his uncle found his way to Demerara is thus told 

 in Waterton'S '• Autobiography" : — 



" My father's sister was remarkably handsome. As 

 she w-as walking in the Streets of Wakefield, a gentle- 

 man, by name Daly, from Demerara, met her accident- 

 ally and fell in love with her : they were married in 

 due course of time, although the family w^as very 

 much averse to the match. Soon after this my father's 

 younger brother, who had no hopes at home on account 



