Guiana Gold. hi 
in playing for the stake of the possession of the auriferous 
districts — reports of which were brought to him. 
Mr. RoDWAYsaysin his annals of Guiana : — M In 1742 a 
charter was granted to WILLIAM Hack to piospe6l for 
gold in Surinam. In 1740 THOMAS HlLDEBRAND pros- 
peeled for silver in the Blue Mountains near Groete 
Creek, and on the Cuyuni and Mazaruni," He at any 
rate was near the gold, if indeed he did not find it. There 
are still some old shafts on the left hand of the Essequebo 
below Wolgu which are still called the Goud-Mijs by the 
Dutch speaking bovianders. 
Mr. RODWAY also records that in 1751 a miner called 
Simon Abraham came out to Berbice under an engage- 
ment to senrch for gold and silver up the Berbice river. 
Three centuries had rolled by before RALEIGH was 
vindicated by the discovery of the enormously rich quartz 
reefs of the Caratal district in Venezuela. The discovery 
of gold in French Guiana followed — Dutch Guiana was 
found to be equally rich, and as early as 1855 2°^ na( ^ 
been got from the Cuyuni river in British Guiana. About 
the year 1863 the Warrili Company was formed to work 
quartz reefs on the Cuyuni. The British Government 
however, refused its protection; and fear of the Venezue- 
lans prevented the continuance of these operations. 
In 1875 Messrs. D'Amil and ANSDELL were working 
on the Cuyuni and in 1877 Mr. SCOTT joined their Com- 
pany, and there were also three expeditions prospecting for 
M. VlTALO of Cayenne, — one of them under Mr. Bre- 
MOND, and Jules Caman in command of another. 
One of the pioneers of the gold industry in this colony 
is Mr. Lawrence Forbes, who was practically the first 
to work the ground in a scientific manner. 
