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so exceedingly hard that they gave out sparks on the 

 slightest blow with iron. 



Halted and slept on an island opposite the Saramu 

 Creek, N. shore. Here the path sets ofE to Pomeroon 

 and Wayeena Rivers, and is the same traversed by 

 GULLIFER and Smith in 1820. It is computed at 5 days 

 journey to the Wayeena by the Indians — equal to 7 or 

 8 of an European's. 



6th day. Started at 8, caught a loulou of 50 lbs., course 

 W. by N., still water. At 9 Warara rapid ; at 2 Watoo- 

 pegary rapid, small, but very long. Totonow Creek N. 

 bank at g^. We spoke this day two woodskins loaded 

 with turtle for the coast, and bought 3 days cassada — 

 oars I the day ; slept at Watoopegary at 3, 



7th day. Started at j 7, course S. by W., dense fog. 

 At 9 Copary Creek N. bank, at ^ 10 Bayuma Creek S. 

 bank. Here the river clear of islands and 150 yards 

 across. At 2 | Waycoury fall, long and difficult, rocks 

 like the slope of a glass-house — ^ this day course W. 

 oars, sails — and a good breeze right aft. 



8th day. Started at 7 ; course W. by S., clear of 

 islands. Halted at ^ past 9 at the foot of the fall 

 Acoreywaught where we unloaded for the 6th time, and 

 halted for the day and night to fish, hunt and dry cargo. 

 The water is here quite black and transparent ; hitherto 

 it had been alternately dark and clear and white and 

 muddy, as it passed through rocky or clayey banks, so that 

 the epithet of a white river to the Cuyuni is inapplicable 

 from this point upward, all being a dark water. I 

 reckoned this fall 124 miles west of our departure and 

 220 feet above the level of the sea. 



9th day. Started at \ 8— course W. by N. At 9.10 



