SOUTH AMERICA. I49 

 The little distinctions which have been shown him at his Second 



Journey. 



own home, ought to be forgotten when he travels over — 



the Avorld at large ; for strangers know nothing of his 

 former merits, and it is necessary that they should wit- 

 ness them before they pay him the tribute which he was 

 wont to receive within his own doors. Thus, to be kind 

 and affable to those we meet, to mix in their amuse- 

 ments, to pay a compliment or two to their manners and 

 customs, to respect their elders, to give a little to their 

 distressed and needy, and to feel, as it were, at home 

 amongst them, is the sure way to enable you to pass 

 merrily on, and to find other comforts as sweet and 

 palatable as those which you were accustomed to par- 

 take of amongst your friends and acquaintance in your 

 own native land. We will now ascend in fancy on 

 Icarian wing, and take a view of Guiana in general. 

 See an immense plain ! betwixt two of the largest rivers 

 in the world, level as a bowling-green, save at Cayenne, 

 and covered with trees along the coast quite to the 

 Atlantic wave, except where the plantations make a 

 little vacancy amongst the foliage. 



Though nearly in the centre of the torrid zone, the sun's 

 rays are not so intolerable as might be imagined, on account 

 of the perpetual verdure and refreshing north-east breeze. 

 See what numbers of broad and rapid rivers intersect it 

 in their journey to the ocean, and that not a stone or a 

 pebble is to be found on their banks, or in any part of the 



