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Slaves Swapped for a Dog, 
wealth^' planter, Mr. Brandes.* His passion for hunting and Ms 
dissipations had lost him one estate after another, until nothing more 
remained left to liim but this liouse. A sliort time before he had married 
the daughter of an Arawak and had moved to the home of his father-in- 
law on the upper Madewini. A numl>er of hunting stories about him 
are current in the colony : one of them mnst be common eiiougli aboiit his 
having swapi)ed two slaves for a good Imiiting dog. Two miles above 
the mouth of the Madewini, there rolls into the main stream on its 
western shoi-e the Cammoni, one of its hirgest tributaries: in its course 
it receives the Waratilla into which the Mibero flows. Tlie banks were 
occupied by some Arawaks. On the Cammoni are found several large 
sug;ir-estat<' on the Demerara — IMantation (ilasgow: this, liowevei', is 
timber establishments, but at its mouth rise the Ituiblings of the last 
on the verge of being a])andoned. A mile above the mouth of the 
Cammoni on the eastern bank there falls into the Demerara the 
Hawerorini which during its course receives the Timiti, Marinaje and 
Kororoni. 
075. Hitherto, the river had followed its course through a flat 
alluvial plain : except where the thick woodland had made it intpossible, 
no rising ground had prevented the glance from rambling over a 20-milo 
]>road expanse. Now for the first time, iust as we came round a bend, 
there rose a 70 ft. high elevation on the western bank directly on the 
water's edge, and with it we reached the chain of hills that the Colonists 
haVe named The Sandliills." This stretches from the Arabian Coast 
to the C(»rentyn in a south-easterly by southerly and then in an entirely 
southerly direction, across the entire coast at the most varying distance 
from the sea-shore: for while along the Arabian Coast it appi'oaches to 
within 2 miles of the Atlantic, it recedes some 40 miles farther back on 
the Berbice and Corentyn. Just as variable as its distance from the 
coast is its height at isolated spots, from between 50 and 120 feet: a 
second group of isolated hills parallel with these sandhills crosses the 
I'vssequilio at Osterbecke Point, in (>° 15' lat. N., the Demerara at Arobeya 
in 6° 5' lat. N., but the Berbice in 5° lat. N. The slope of the hill 
towards the river. Avith its dazzling white sand, looked as if it 
were covered with snow: its summit was covered with luxuriant wood- 
land. (Sec. 1013.) 
970. The owner of the hill, as well as of the whole of the land at the 
back, is a Mr. Brotherson, who formerly carried on an extensive timber 
Itusiness. Being already kno\\ n to me, he gave me a hearty welcome at 
his pleasant little honse tliat endK'llishes the top of the hill, where I 
gladly accepted his invitation to spend a few days: the markedly 
changed conditions of soil led me to surmise that I should reap a harvest 
of another kind of flora there. 
977. This part of the Sandliills is at the same time one of the most 
favourite resorts for excursionists from Georgetown, and with the 
exception of the aristocracy the steamer almost every "Saturday evening 
* There is a vhioc in Aliidrwi 
now Kuowu us Tul.aian's Hill. Imt which I have h-ard 
eallea Bruiules Hill. (V 1^ ) 
