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of all the rivers I have seen in British Guiana, but it has 

 been so often described in the pages of this Journal, that 

 I can add nothing new to the pi6lure. 



I am informed that small emeralds have been found 

 in the sand that colle6ls in the hollows of the rocks at 

 Tumatumari. 



Over and against the fall, and perched on a hill, is the 

 Government Gold Station. The Officer in charge re- 

 ceived me most kindly on our arrival, inviting me up to 

 his house for breakfast, and I left the captain to look 

 after the transporting of the load across the portage at 

 the top of the fall, where it was put into another boat. 

 After spending a short time with Mr. Spence, I went 

 down to the water-side to embark and found that our 

 newly acquired boat had a rotten gunwale and that the 

 load was too heavy to admit of the party sitting on top 

 of the tarpaulins. Mr. Spence kindly helped us out of 

 the difficulty by lending one of his small boats, also 

 placing at my disposal the services of his captain. 



Everything being at length arranged, 1 started from 

 Tumatumari at about one o'clock and reached the Potaro 

 Landing at 7.30 p.m., worn out and tired, having paddled 

 a distance of nine miles against a strong current, and 

 through a soaking rain accompanied by heavy thunder 

 and lightning. 



The large boat with my baggage came up to the land- 

 ing about half an hour later, and feeling my way in the 

 dark down a slippery path to see after my traps, I dis- 

 covered that my prospering bag, containing hammock 

 and blanket, had been foolishly left behind at Tumata- 

 mari, so that 1 was forced to make a bed for the night 

 on some biscuit boxes at the " Inflexible" Gold Mining 



