9G 
WANDERINGS IN 
SECOND 
JOURNEY. 
The town. 
Governor 
of Cay¬ 
enne. 
The Inha¬ 
bitants. 
on the coast of Guiana. Its estates are too much 
separated one from the other, by immense tracts of 
forest; and the revolutionary war, like a cold eastern 
wind, has chilled their zeal, and blasted their best 
expectations. 
The clove-tree, the cinnamon, pepper and nutmeg, 
and many other choice spices and fruits of the 
eastern and Asiatic regions, produce abundantly in 
Cayenne. 
The town itself is prettily laid out, and was once 
well fortified. They tell you it might easily have 
been defended against the invading force of the two 
united nations ; but Victor Hugues, its governor, 
ordered the tri-coloured flag to be struck; and ever 
since that day, the standard of Braganza has waved 
on the ramparts of Cayenne. 
He who has received humiliations from the hand 
of this haughty, iron-hearted governor, may see him 
now in Cayenne, stripped of all his revolutionary 
honours, broken down and ruined, and under arrest 
in his own house. He has four accomplished 
daughters, respected by the whole town. Towards 
the close of day, when the sun’s rays are no longer 
oppressive, these much-pitied ladies are seen walking 
up and down the balcony with their aged parent, 
trying, by their kind and filial attention, to remove 
the settled gloom from his too guilty brow. 
This was not the time for a traveller to enjoy 
Cayenne. The hospitality of the inhabitants was the 
same as ever, but they had lost their wonted gaiety 
in public, and the stranger might read in their coun- 
