SOUTH AMERICA. 23 

 He who wishes to reach the Macoushi country had First 



Journey. 



better send his canoe over land, from Sinkerman's to the 



Esseqiiibo. 



There is a pretty good path, and meeting a creek about 

 thi-ee quarters of the way, it eases the labour ; and twelve 

 Indians will arrive with it in the Essequibo in four days. 



The traveller need not attend his canoe ; there is a 

 shorter and a better way. Half an hour below Sinker- 

 man's, he finds a little creek on the western bank of the 

 Demerara. After proceeding about a couple of hundred 

 yards up it, he leaves it, and pursues a west -north -west 

 direction by land for the Essequibo. The path is good, 

 though somewhat rugged with the roots of trees, and 

 here and there obstructed by fallen ones ; it extends more 

 over level ground than otherwise. There are a few steep 

 ascents and descents in it, with a little brook running at 

 the bottom of them ; but they are easily passed over, 

 and the fallen trees serve for a bridge. 



You may reach the Essequibo with ease in a day and 

 a half ; and so matted and interwoven are the tops of 

 the trees above you, that the sun is not felt once all the 

 way, saving where the space which a newly fallen tree 

 occupied lets in his rays upon you. The forest contains 

 an abundance of wild hogs, lobbas, acouries, powisses, 

 maams, maroudis, and wariicabas, for your nourishment, 

 and there are plenty of leaves to cover a shed, whenever 

 you are inclined to sleep. 



