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been awarded to him for his researches in British Guiana. 

 While foreign nations, therefore, can thus acknowledge 

 the merit, and reward the services of this scientific man 

 and enterprising traveller, in whose labours and re- 

 searches they only profit generally, in so much as they 

 advance the cause of literature and science, we trust it 

 shall not be said that we, whose benefit is immediate and 

 direct from such labours, have been less willing to 

 reward them, either by fame or a more solid compensa- 

 tion." 



While his brother was in Georgetown, Richard 

 SCHOMBURGK was collecting on the savannahs near 

 Pirara. His pursuits would not admit of being properly 

 carried out during the longer expeditions, he therefore, 

 confined himself to careful investigations of the Fauna 

 and Flora round certain centres, the principal of which 

 was Pirara, the others being the Pomeroon Post, and the 

 Demerara River. 



Sir ROBERT Schomburgk proceeded from George- 

 town, on his final expedition, on February 14th, 1S43, 

 to meet his brother and the rest of the party at Pirara. 

 Proceeding up the Rupununi to the village of Watu 

 Ticaba, where RICHARD SCHOMBURGK was left behind, 

 the expedition crossed the savannahs to a small affluent of 

 the Corentyne, where they constructed woodskins and 

 proceeded down that river. The navigation was very 

 difficult, the woodskins being cracked by continual colli- 

 sions with the rocks. But the worst trouble was semi- 

 starvation, the last few days of the journey being 

 endured on an allowance of six ounces of farinhato each 

 person per day. The party reached Georgetown on 

 Odtober 13th. The Royal Gazette of October the 19th, 



