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in my chest are insufficient for my long journey. I 

 request you therefore kindly to use your influence with 

 Mr. Spencer, the Postholder at Demerary River, that 

 ,he interests himself to forward such things by the above 

 Captain Paronwaicboi as he may receive. 



Excuse haste and the trouble I cause, but you so kindly 

 offered your valuable services at the point of starting 

 that I have felt myself encouraged to make use of them. 



Believe me with greatest esteem and regard. — Very 

 truly, Yours, 



ROBERT SCHOMBURGK. 

 Reed., 2nd Dec. 1835, 

 F. H. Young. 



Pirarara, on the left bank of the Rupununy. ' 



5th, December 1835. 

 Dear Sir, — I had the pleasure to write to you when not 

 far from the river Rupununy, since which period I had the 

 honour to address His Excellency, and to give him an 

 outline of my proceedings ; it was then a gloomy time 

 with us, fever kept us to our hammocks, and though Mr. 

 Haining and myself have since recovered after I had a 

 second attack of fever and ague, Mr. Brotherson is so 

 weak, that it had become necessary to send him to Fort 

 San Joaquim. An excellent opportunity has offered it- 

 self for that purpose ; on leaving Georgetown, I was 

 requested to take charge of a letter to the Bishop at Para 

 and to send it by an Indian to the Portuguese Fort ; as 

 I did not understand Portuguese I wrote the Commandant 

 in French requesting him to forward the letter with the 

 first eligible opportunity, but the gentleman not under- 

 standing French conjectured that I wanted to come to 



