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cakes of bread (cassava) were baked.* These were 
the only three instances in which I had actually- 
seen pottery which had been dug up in British 
Guiana. But Mr. BARRINGTON Brown in his "Canoe 
and Camp Life in British Guiana, " mentions certain 
sites of ancient villages occurring in the far interior, 
distinguishable from the surrounding country, not only by 
their rich black soil, but also by the abundance of broken 
fragments of pottery occurring in this soil. This may be 
compared with the accounts of similar places occurring 
in the Amazon district. For instance, Mr. Herbert H. 
Smith in his book " Brazil, the Amazon and the Coast" 
makes mention of many places where black earth occurs 
thickly interspersed with fragments of pottery and 
stone implements. Mr. BARRINGTON Brown's " sites 
of ancient villages" seem to be similar deposits ; but, in 
the course of a considerable amount of travel through 
most parts of the colony, I have never been fortunate 
enough to meet with such a ' site.' 
But last January, Mr. Rashleigh Porter of Pin. 
Enmore, on the east coast of Demerara, who had even 
before that sent me certain stone implements found on a 
reef at the back of that estate, sent me some grotesque 
clay figures, of a highly artistic kind, found by him on 
the same reef. These figures at once attracted my at- 
tention ; and, at Mr. PORTER'S kind invitation, I spent 
two days at Enmore, examining the place from 
which this pottery had come, and procuring a large 
* Since the above was written I have learned that the Indians about 
the Waini River have, up the present time, been in the habit of oc- 
casionally making baking slabs of clay. 
