The First Ascent of Roraima. 
By the Editor 
LEFT my home on the Pomeroon River on 
the ioth of October, taking with me seventeen 
Indians, of various tribes, from that river, 
in my own two boats. One of these was a very 
large corial dug out of a single cedar-tree (Icica 
sp. ?) which I had procured about two years before at the 
mouth of the Orinoco ; the other, also a " dug-out," 
was somewhat smaller. On the 12th of the same month, 
having passed along the sea-coast and turned up the 
Essequibo, we reached the point where that river is 
joined by the Mazerooni. Here, partly because I was 
so unwell as to dread the start, partly because I had to 
wait for my companion, Mr. HARRY INNISS Perkins, an 
assistant Crown Surveyor, who, by the kind permission 
of His Excellency Sir Henry T. Irving, was to ac- 
company me, and partly because I found it necessary to 
seek and purchase a third boat and to engage two 
more Indians, we waited until Thursday the 17th. On 
the morning of that day we made our real start, pass- 
ing, during the first half hour, at the junction of the 
