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and scientific, rather than for their loose and popular 
names. Books were a delight to him — books to be used, 
not to be merely collected. And, to chronicle but one 
more of his innumerable interests, he had a curi- 
ous fancy for collecting from each traveller from the 
interior detailed itineraries of their journeys, carefully 
noting distances, times of each day's journey, camp- 
ing places, along each river. He himself, by the way, 
once showed me an original journal which he had 
kept during a journey of exploration which he had 
made during his earliest years of manhood across 
country between the Berbice and Demerara rivers ; which 
journal gave me the impression, as I remember, more of 
a journey of penetration into a really unknown land than 
anything which we less fortunate travellers can find 
material for in these latter days which have come since 
the Schomburgks, Appun and Barrington Brown. 
Mr. WINTER'S contributions to Timehri were : — 
" Coffee Cultivation in Berbice, 50 years ago" (Vol. I, 
p. 272); "Our Muddy Shores" (Vol. II, p. 1.); " The 
River Berbice and its Tributaries" (Vol. II, p. 265 ; 
" Couvade" (Vol. II, p. 159.); and "Ocean Currents" 
(Vol. 11, p. 160.) 
He also, in 1873, published a book entitled " The 
Mystery Finished", dealing with the fulfilment of prophecy. 
