SOUTH AMERICA. 



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REMARKS. 



" Incertus, quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur." 



Kind and gentle reader, if the journey in quest of the First 



Journey. 



wouraU poison has engaged thy attention, probably thou 



mayest recollect that the traveller took leave of thee at 



Fort St. Joachim, on the Rio Branco. Shouldest thou illness at 



Fort St. 



wish to know what befell him afterwards, excuse the Joachim. , 

 following uninteresting narrative. 



Having had a return of fever, and aware that the 

 farther he advanced into these wild and lonely regions, 

 the less would be the chance of regaining his health ; 

 he gave up all idea of proceeding onwards, and went 

 slowly back towards the Demerara, nearly by the same Returns to 



Denierara. 



route he had come. 



On descending the falls in the Essequibo, which form Fails of the 



Esseq\iibo. 



an oblique line quite across the river, it Avas resolved to 

 push through them, the downward stream being in the 



