THE


Avicultural Magazine


BEING THE JOURNAL OF

THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY

FOR THE STUDY OF

FOREIGN & BRITISH BIRDS

IN FREEDOM & CAPTIVITY



Third Series. — Vol. XIII. — No. 12 . — All rights reserved. DECEMBER, 1922.



NOTES OF A BIRD-LOVER IN TROPICAL


AMERICA


By J. Delacour


[Continued from p. 168.)


Surinam


The Maroni river is at times subject to big storms. When I left

St. Laurent for Albina, where I had to take the little Dutch coastal

steamer for Paramaribo, huge waves beat against my boat, so that it

took me half an hour to cross the river, and I was only able to land after

many difficulties.


The voyage from Albina to Paramaribo, following the Maroni and

coasting along Dutch Guiana, has nothing to commend it. A rough

sea and a cockle-shell boat encumbered with coloured people, Chinese

and a regular medley of humans. I was already acquainted with

Paramaribo on the Surinam river, which gives to the town itself and to

the whole colony their names. The river resembles both the Maroni

and all the other water-courses of the Guianas, vast and brown, with

muddy shapeless banks.


The capital of Dutch Guiana is very pleasing ; the pretty pale-blue

houses, many of which carry the mark of the eighteenth century, the

broad avenues of the flaming flamboyant trees, the lovely botanical

garden, and the general air of neatness and prosperity, give a sense of

calm and repose.


The population of 40,000 inhabitants is so mixed and so picturesque

that one is never tired of observing it—Indians, Hindoos, Javanese,


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