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Company's Magazine. The next morning as luck would 

 have it the bag turned up in another boat. It had been 

 found on the rocks, where my men had left it, by Mr. 

 Spence'S boat hands, and promptly forwarded on. I 

 never expe6ted to see it again, for there were any num- 

 ber of labourers from the Gold-fields about the Station 

 at Tumatamari looking for a passage to Grove, and who 

 would certainly have annexed it, had it fallen into their 

 hands. 



There are about seventy-five houses, or rather sheds 

 at the Potaro Landing, the red Neponset covered roofs 

 of which stand pifturesquely amidst the tall trees. These 

 sheds are mostly used as Magazines for storing the 

 provisions belonging to the different placers aback, and 

 the filthiness of their surroundings is absolutely disgrace- 

 ful, one's sense of smell being offended by abominable 

 odours wherever he turns. It is a pity that the placer- 

 holders should not compel the men in charge of these 

 Magazines to keep them a little more cleanly. 



One unpretentious shed is known as the " Garnett 

 Syndicate Store," and the man in charge holds the Office 

 of Post Master, for which I am told he receives the large 

 sum of five dollars, monthly. He has caused the follow- 

 ing sign to be nailed to a tree : — 



Potaro Post Office. 



Garnett & Co. 



Potaro Gold Mining Agency. 



All kinds of ordinary Provisions. ■» 



Here follows a list of Gold Diggers' requisites, amongst 



other things mentioned being spoons, slippers, drawers, 



shirts, &c. 



A little removed from the Magazines stands the Church, 



