Essequibo, Berhice and Demerara under the Dutch, 
PART III. 
By the Editor. 
A PTURE by the English. {A .D. 1 796-1803.)* 
Guiana as it was found by the English when 
they occupied it in 1796, has been well des- 
cribed by GEORGE PlNCKARD, who, as deputy Inspector- 
General to His Majesty's forces, went to Barbados early 
in 1796 with the expedition against the Dutch under Sir 
Ralph Abercromby. From Barbados he was sent in 
April with the detachment, under General WHYTE, des- 
patched to occupy the colonies in Guiana ; and there he 
was engaged for more than a year in organizing military 
hospitals to receive the terribly large, and ever increasing 
number of those of the troops on whom yellow fever, the 
once and, in a less degree, still terrible West Indian 
Yellow Jack, seized, the only enemy — and it was a very 
terrible one — with which the troops experienced any se- 
rious difficulty. The official duties of PlNCKARD thus gave 
him most intimate relation to the commanders of the 
occupying force; and, at the same time, his own genial 
nature brought him into equally intimate social relation 
with the hospitable inhabitants of the occupied land. He 
probably saw more of Guiana than any other man of his 
* The materials of this chapter are almost entirely derived from the 
second and third volumes of the ' Notes on the West Indies written dur. 
ing the Expedition under the late Sir Ralph Abercromby,' by George 
Pinckard, M.D., London, 1806. 
