SOUTH AMERICA. 



Perhaps, kind reader, thou hast not forgot that it was 

 from Stabroek, the capital of Demerara, that the adven- 

 turer set out, some years ago, to reach the Portuguese 

 frontier fort, and collect the wourali poison. It was not 

 intended, when this second sally was planned in England, 

 to have visited Stabroek again by the route here described. 

 The plan was, to have ascended the Amazons from Para, 

 and got into the Rio Negro, and from thence to have 

 returned towards the source of the Essequibo, in order 

 to examine the crystal mountains, and look once more 

 for Lake Parima, or the White Sea ; but on arriving at 

 Cayenne, the current was running with such amazing 

 rapidity to leeward, that a Portuguese sloop which had 

 been beating up towards Para for four weeks, was then 

 only half way. Finding, therefore, that a beat to the 

 Amazons would be long, tedious, and even uncertain, 

 and aware that the season for procuring birds in fine 

 plumage had already set in, I left Cayenne in an Ame- 

 rican ship for Paramaribo, went through the interior to 

 the Coryntin, stopped a few days in New Amsterdam, and 

 proceeded to Demerara. If, gentle reader, thy patience 

 be not already worn out, and thy eyes half closed in 

 slumber, by perusing the dull adventures of this second 

 sally, perhaps thou wilt pardon a line or two on Deme- 

 rara ; and then we will retire to its forests, to collect 

 and examine the economy of its most rare and beautiful 

 birds, and give the world a new mode of preserving them. 



