CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1. 
Chapter I. Page. 
Departure from Vovgstedt — Frankfort-ou-th e-Main — Rotterdam 
• — Voyage to England — Arrival in London — The Dork * — 
Natural History Institutions — The Niger Expedition — 
Personal Experiences .... .... .... .... 1 — 7 
Chapter il. 
Departure from London — The Travelling Party — Captain Roth- 
well — Lea-sickness — Experiments with Lea- weed — Crossing 
the Line — The New World .... .... .... 8 — 1G 
Chapter 111. 
Landing — Georgetown — Historical Retrospect .... .... 17 — 71) 
Chapter IV. 
Expedition to the mouth of the Orinoco — Mouth of the 
Wuini — Land-bank — Mora— Barima- — Warrau — Cum, aka, 
village and its environs — Commencement of the rainy 
season — First trip to the virgin forest — Chigoes — Bete 
rouge — Mouth of the Barima and Orinoco — Return to 
Cumaka — Habits of the Lloth — Arawak chief Caberalli — 
River Aruka — Amacura — Religious Beliefs, Manners and 
Customs of the Warraus — Journey up the Barima — Flora 
and Fauna of the river basin — Akawai — First appearance 
of primitive rocks .... .... .... .... 80 — IGF. 
Chapter V. 
L plitUng up of the Expedition — Return to the lower reaches of 
the Essequibo — Network of natural canals— River Who- 
mana — Waini — Obstinacy of the Negroes — Barimani 
—Beam — Asacota settlement — Manners and Customs of 
the Arawaks — Court-day — Flora of the Barabara — River 
Morocco — M orocco Mission — Missionary Collins — Colonies 
of Ants — M lid-banks of the coast — Month of the Pomeroon 
— A district of abandoned estates — Hospital for lepers 
Mr. Brett's Mission — Tapacuma Lake — Wandering Ants 1GI — 195 
Chapter VI. 
Mouth of the Essequibo — Islands at the mouth — Bartika Grove 
— Mouth of the Mazaruni — Kyk-cver-aH Island — Penal Let- 
