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el Castellano, no nos faltara medio de communicar y tener first 
conversacion. Ruego se escuse esta carta escrita sin tinta, J - U - RNF1 
porque un Indio dexo caer mi tintero y quebrose. Dios le de 
a YM. muchos anos de salud. Entretanto, tengo el honor de ser 
Su mas obedeciente servidor, 
Carlos YVaterton. 
REMARKS. 
1 Incertus, quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur." 
Kind and gentle reader, if the journey in quest of 
the wourali poison has engaged thy attention, pro¬ 
bably thou mayest recollect that the traveller took 
leave of thee at Fort St. Joachim, on the Rio Branco. 
Shouldst thou wish to know what befel him after¬ 
wards, excuse the following uninteresting narrative. 
Having had a return of fever, and aware that the 
farther he advanced into these wild and lonely 
regions, the less would be the chance of regaining 
his health; he gave up all idea of proceeding on¬ 
wards, and went slowly back towards the Demerara, 
nearly by the same route he had come. 
On descending the falls in the Essequibo, which 
form an oblique line quite across the river, it was 
resolved to push through them, the downward stream 
Illness at 
Fort St. 
Joachim. 
Returns 
to Deme-i 
rara. 
Falls of 
the Esse¬ 
quibo, 
