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left to increase the colle6lions, I have to make myself 

 no reproaches of having negle6led my duty towards 

 the Society. For details I beg leave to refer Your Ex- 

 cellency to the accompanying report to the R. Geogrl. 

 Society which you will have the goodness to forward 

 after you have read the same, if deemed worthy Your 

 Excellency's perusal, It is my purpose to leave the 

 Rupununy next month, and to follow the Essequibo as 

 far as the great Catara6l, which I understand from the 

 Indians is 7 days journey higher up, and which they tell 

 me makes every further advance in corials impossible. 

 In order to see myself whether that be really the case, I 

 have concluded to visit the same, after which I purpose 

 to descend leisurely the Essequibo, visiting its tribu- 

 taries. 



I have met with a serious loss; Captain Arreghay, a 

 Macoosie Indian, who visited Georgetown, and to whom 

 at his return to the Rupununy several letters, some pro- 

 visions, medicines, etc., destined for me, were entrusted, 

 had the misfortune, through neglect, to be upset at the 

 Falls of the Essequibo, and to lose letters, provisions, 

 etc., saving only his hammock and a small case with five 

 bottles of brandy. 



Lieut. Haining will be good enough to deliver to 

 Your Excellency the skins of a tiger and a tiger cat, the 

 acceptance of which I beg as a particular favour. — I have 

 the honour to be. Your Excellency's most obedient and 

 very humble Servant, 



ROBERT H. SCHOMBURGK. 

 His Excellency, Major General, 



Sir James C. Smyth, Bt., &c., &c., 

 Lieut, Governor of British Guiana, 



