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requited, it would be the means of their keeping up FIRST 
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a constant communication with us, which probably- 
might be the means of laying the first stone towards 
their Christianity. They are a poor, harmless, in¬ 
offensive set of people, and their wandering and ill- 
provided way of living seems more to ask for pity 
from us, than to fill our heads with thoughts that 
they would be hostile to us. 
What a noble field, kind reader, for thy experi¬ 
mental philosophy and speculations, for thy learn¬ 
ing, for thy perseverance, for thy kind-heartedness, 
for every thing that is great and good within thee ! 
The accidental traveller who has journeyed on 
from Stabroek to the rock Saba, and from thence to 
the banks of the Essequibo, in pursuit of other 
things, as he told thee at the beginning, with but an 
indifferent interpreter to talk to, no friend to con¬ 
verse with, and totally unfit for that which he wishes 
thee to do, can merely mark the outlines of the path 
he has trodden, or tell thee the sounds he has heard, 
or faintly describe what he has seen in the environs 
of his resting-places; but if this be enough to induce 
thee to undertake the journey, and give the world a 
description of it, he will be amply satisfied. 
It will be two days and a half from the time of 
entering the path on the western bank of the 
Demerara till all be ready, and the canoe fairly 
afloat on the Essequibo. The new rigging it, and 
putting every little thing to rights and in its proper 
place, cannot well be done in less than a day. 
After being night and day in the forest im- 
