le fully in 



But only by leaving the 

 ihrough the bush does one 

 isity, its solitude, and the 



engulfs the explorer. Surely they are 1 

 expeditions through the trackless Guiana forests. Even the 

 native Indians stay closely to their ill-defined trails, and their 

 folklore abounds with tales of their adventures when lost in the 



too uniform to make it a desirable 'field for work. Ecologically, 



3 told in Georgetown, and soon confirmed 



ick of material in suitable cc 

 seldom operated to its full 





probable ■ 



impletely overlooked in a more prolific season. Field glasses 



the trees along the edge of clearings. These my Indians obtained 

 by climbing or felling the trees. They entered heartily into the 

 spirit of the work, and voluntarily and cheerfully devoted much 



out into the rapid current of the Potaro, then twenty feet above 



