22 WANDERINGS IN 



First loiig, rocky, and moderately sloping channel, has a fine 



Journey. 



effect ; and the stranger returns well pleased with what 



he has seen. No animal, nor craft of any kind, could 

 stem this downward flood. In a few moments the first 

 would be killed, the second dashed in pieces. 



The Indians have a path along-side of it, through the 

 forest, where prodigious crabwood trees grow. Up this 

 path they drag their canoes, and launch them into the river 

 above ; and on their return, bring them down the same way. 



Habitation About two liours bclow tliis fall, is the habitation of an 



of an 



Acoway Acoway chief called Sinkerman. At night you hear the 



chief. 



roaring of the fall from it. It is pleasantly situated on 

 the top of a sand-hill. At this place you have the finest 

 view the river Demerara affords : three tiers of hills rise 

 in slow gradation, one above the other, before you, and 

 present a grand and magnificent scene, especially to him 

 Avho has been accustomed to a level country. 



Here, a little after midnight, on the first of May, was 

 heard a most strange and unaccountable noise ; it seemed 

 as though several regiments were engaged, and musketry 

 firing with great rapidity. The Indians, terrified beyond 

 description, left tlieir hammocks, and crowded all toge- 

 ther, like sheep at the approach of the wolf There were 

 no soldiers within three or four hundred miles. Conjectm'e 

 was of no avail, and all conversation next morning on 

 the subject was as useless and unsatisfactory as the dead 

 silence which succeeded to the noise. 



