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all (_';) light on tile luKtU. The lake is a reservoir for lish to the Indians 
living 111 the <'iiviioji!s who conit' here m large nuni iters 1o eateh them. 
798. The botanical excursions I made from here into the neigh- 
bouring sweet-smelling vanilla-scented virgin t()i-c;-t were amply re- 
warded. Besides the attractive Cyin'ipedium pahnifolmm Lindl, the 
blossom of which in its structure exactly r-esembles Calccolarkv tricolor, 
I found several new species of the family Clvslitceiic sucli as Toromitai 
^chonihurgJc'iana Klotzsch, and Tovondta macrophylla Klotzsch, both 
conspicnous through the aromatic scent of their flowers. From out of 
the ii unlv of a species of Garcinia, with a quantity of apple-like fruit, 
there oozed a yellow gum that was exactly like Gummi guttae. I dis- 
covered large quantities of the beautiful Eperua faloata., and Paricoa 
f/niiKliflora, the timbei- most sought after by the rolonists. After a 
stay of eight days I continued my journey up the Tapacuma which, as I 
have previously mentioned, winds its way through a thick forest of the 
most Iteautiful ]>alms c.|/., ifanicaiia mcclfcra, (Joioni rpiis Baiaua, 0. 
Bacaba, Euterpe, Bactrim, and stately virgin forest trees the trunks of 
which were covered with the most varied orchids : amongst the latter the 
large-blossomed Goryatithe.^ mncrnutha, and C. wnculnta let their felt- 
like roots, which thousands of ants had chosen for a home, hang from 
down the Iwanches. In the course of a few hours we paddled into the 
Arapiacro which, coming from the southwai'd. joins the Tapacuma, and 
spent the night with a coloured man. the present owner of what was once 
a Dutch estate. By the following morning, August 2."th. we had once 
more reached the Pomeroon that comes here almost straight out of the 
R.W., and with it. at the junction of both streams, the Mission with its 
small and homely church and its industrions missionaiw Mr. Brett. 
The width of the mouth of the Arapiacro amounted to 100, that of the 
bed of the Pomeroon to 160 yards. 
799. "Pomeaco House,'' and its smiling garden opposite the Mission 
on the left bank of the Pomeroon, the) sight of which had so surprised 
me on my return from the Bnrima, had been iriven up by its owner. Mr. 
Pickersgill. On account of the population of the Pomeroon continually 
decreasincr. bo had left the business a year ago to take up the manage- 
ment of Plantation '(Tolumbia on the Arabian Coast. ITp till now he 
had found no riurchaser for the •nronertv, which his former business 
manafrer. !Mr. Blackburn, was looking after in the menntime. Tb^^ 
beautiful little garden surrounding the dwelling-house had almost ruii' 
comnletely wild. The former nourishing luishes of GlrninTer. T.rora. 
JTihl'^ru'^, Baiiliinm, aud 'Jamm'wtf,. as well as the beautiful fruit trees, 
everything was covered with rank scarlet-red weeds, while the green turf, 
with its motler coloured ''Xmnryllh beds was graj^e'd and trampled upon 
Hy the cattle that still remained. 
SOO. After a four days' stay which in ^Ir. Blackburn's and TTev. 
Brett's pleasant company passed very ouickly T made arranffements to 
resume my trip up the Bomeroon. INFy kind host Olr. Blackburn V 
accompanied us in a small corial because he was afraid that without a 
puide we would not find our way to the nearest Carib settlement 
Kuamuta, where I wanted to hire some of the residents for my farther 
