368 TlMEHRI. 
" Owing to the suddenness of the arrival of so many 
" persons to seek employment in the colony, His 
" Excellency was much perplexed for a time. But 
" the difficulty was overcome when several mana- 
" gers of coffee plantations agreed to employ a 
" few of the Spaniards ; others, who had some 
" knowledge of horses, were engaged as grooms ; 
" others as cooks ; and others again were sent 
" to the Essequibo Coast to weed the public roads and to 
" cut cord-wood for the plantations. A few who were 
" still undisposed of, were taken over by William Hill- 
" HOUSE, a gentleman well-known as a clever writer. 
" HlLLMOUSE employed his Spaniards to fish with a 
" seine, and always accompanied them on such excur- 
" sions. The seine was long enough to reach across 
" the rivers Waini and Barima. Mr. HlLLHOUSE having 
" taken great interest in the Spaniards, these looked up 
" to him as their chief; and to this day his name is 
(( almost adored by every Spanish Arawak in the Moruca 
" river. The Spaniards who came from the Orinoko 
" were a hardy set of fellows, civil, industrious, obliging, 
" and frugal, and much liked for their general good 
" qualities." 
" It must not be forgotten that the fathers of the pre- 
" sent Spanish Arawaks were a perfectly civilized and 
" Christian people before they came to British Guiana, 
" and it is only natural that their descendants should 
" have imbibed some of their good qualities. Moreover, 
" they had for years the benefit of a resident clergyman, 
a group is probably due to their isolation as the only Roman Catholics 
among many Protestants, and to their curious retention of Spanish as 
their language.— Ed, 
