CHAPTER VII. 
Expedition to the Interior of Guiana — Departure from Georgetown — 
Am pa Station — Osterbecke Point — Commencement of the Rapids and 
Cataracts — Flora of the lower Essequibo region — ltaballi Cataract 
- — Aharo — Paging season for Turtle— Gluck Island — Arissaro 
Mountains — Commencement of the second scries of Cataracts — 
Waraputa Mission — Hieroglyphics — Kanaima — Twasinki and 
A ka i wa n na Ranges — Ta m b ica bo Isla nd — 0 uropoca ri Ca taract— 
Achramncra — Rupnnuni — Co rib settlement — Kirahagh Aurime — 
Sa ra n nah — Macusis — Victoria Regia — Ha iowa M acusi village — 
Sadis gigas — Savannah fires — 1 Yai-ipukari Inlet — Tapir hunt — 
Amarieuru. 
091. Fuddled and drunk after the night spent in revelry, and tired 
out with waltzes and quadrilles, we sneaked at daybreak into our quar- 
ters really with the intention of immediately going aboard the steamer, 
though this actually took place only by 10 o'clock, because, owing to my 
brother's absence, I yet had to discuss some further business with the 
military officers who would only be following a fortnight later. 
692. The word of command from the captain set the machinery agog, 
the paddle-wheels ploughed bravely into the waves, and we had already 
somewhat cheered the depressed paternal heart of Hamlet who, in the 
swishing and booming of the pumps, thought lie recognised the bitterest 
reproaches of his wife and children left crying on the wharf and whom 
lie, howling in the paroxysm of his grief, wanted to rejoin by jumping 
overboard, — when from behind a thick clump of bush there pulled 
towards us a boat containing several men of whom one ordered the 
skipper to stop. It was again the Police Inspector and his subordinates 
who were come on board to search the vessel through for my brother. 
Amidst the general laughter of the crew and many a witty remark with 
which t he coloured people are always ready, he had to return to his boat 
without having discovered the escapee while we, amidst the joyous 
hurrahs of the crowd gathered on shore and the equally joyous answer 
of the sailors speedily sped around the 20 mile wide peninsula formed of 
alluvial soil that divides the Demerara from the Essequibo. Ou 
reaching the mouth of the latter a last farewell for many a long day was 
said to Georgetown as it hid behind the tongue of land and the delightful 
estate of Greenwich Park came into view. The arranged-for signal was 
given notifying freedom from danger and hardly had the captain checked 
the vessel’s engines on her rapid course than a boat made its appearance 
from out of the thick growth on the shore, and brought my brother and 
Mr. van Günthern on board where they were both heartily received. 
We reached Ampa Station, lying 30 miles further, only about midnight, 
at which late hour we had to discharge cargo, the steamer having to 
return to town next morning. Stöckle’s former unlucky star seemed 
as if it were about to follow him again at the commencement of this 
