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strongest and most powerful defence in its approaches — the marshy bot- 
tom of the shallow water together with the ebb and flow. The garrison 
consists of a detachment of Artillery under the command of a Major. 
100. Near the Fort rises the Lighthouse tower, east 
of which the beautiful but unoccupied Camp House, 
the residence of former Governors, who in those days were also 
the Troop-commanders, peeps clandestinely through the thick 
foliage of giant trees: the lovely, large and roomy Eve Leary Ear- 
racks are attached to it, and the two Military Hospitals border the 
immense parade ground. The barracks could boldly measure swords with 
all the institutions of that nature that I have had the opportunity of see- 
ing at home and abroad, and be certain of victory besides. The soldiers 
sleep on mattresses in large airy quarters. Each of the hospitals with 
their clean and neat kitchens, and their beautiful tanks, is estimated for 
several hundred patients. As regards cleanliness and careful attention, 
the military lazarets are particularly distinguishable from the Colonial 
Hospital: the sick are even divided off into different wards according 
to their complaints. The light construction of these buildings specially 
possesses this great advantage, that what with the sultry and oppressive 
temperature, it admits of a continual change of air which is still further 
very greatly maintained by suitable ventilation. A shady alley-way of 
thickly-leaved trees and slender palms leads to the blessed God’s acre for 
the officers, the soldiers’ cemetery being on the farther side of the 
Barracks. The whole garrison of Guiana at the time of my stay, in 
addition to the artillery mentioned, was made up of the 52nd regiment 
of the Line, and a few companies of the first West India Regiment. 
101. Whatever respect everybody must have for the oft-tried valour 
of the last mentioned Regiment which was especially demonstrated in 
the negro uprising of 1824 when folks fought their own countrymen, it is 
nevertheless to be admitted that I could hardly refrain from laughing 
when for the first time T saw filing past me these black figures in red uni- 
forms with their mis-shapen extremities stuck into white pantaloons. The 
officers are Englishmen. England possesses in the West Indian colonies 
two such African regiments which at the present time are specially re 
cruited from captured slave-ships. When one of these runs into a Colonial 
port, a recruiting officer goes on board and looks out for the fittest peo- 
ple for military service. Every one is of course willing to join the Col- 
ours. 
102. Though these young men of Mars in red uniforms and white 
pantaloons, with their black fists, black features and curly woolly hair, 
are already funny enough to look at, their faces nevertheless present an 
appearance something truly awful owing to the different tribal marks or 
Totems which in earliest youth are burnt or cut into their forehead, tem- 
ples, cheek, mouth, and additionally, in other cases, /to the filing of the 
incisor teeth to a point. The larger number come from the Coromantyn, 
and are recognised by the three or four long cuts on each cheek; 'the 
others are Congo-negroes, natives of Mozambique and Sierra Leone. At- 
tached to the military forces proper is an Officer of Enginers who has to 
superintend the Royal buildings, and lives close to the Barracks. 
103. In the Stabroek portion of the present city of Georgetown that 
has still retained its name from former times, and close to the river, 
