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WANDERINGS IN 
SECOND 
JOURNEY, 
it is necessary that they should witness them before 
they pay him the tribute which he was wont to re¬ 
ceive within his own doors. Thus, to be kind and 
affable to those we meet, to mix in their amusements, 
to pay a compliment or two to their manners and 
customs, to respect their elders, to give a little to 
their distressed and needy, and to feel, as it were, at 
home amongst them, is the sure way to enable you 
to pass merrily on, and to find other comforts as 
sweet and palatable as those which you were accus¬ 
tomed to partake of amongst your friends and ac¬ 
quaintance in your own native land. We will now 
ascend in fancy on Icarian wing, and take a view of 
Guiana in general. See an immense plain ! betwixt 
two of the largest rivers in the world, level, as a 
bowling-green, save at Cayenne, and covered with 
trees along the coast quite to the Atlantic wave, 
except where the plantations make a little vacancy 
amongst the foliage. 
Though nearly in the centre of the torrid zone, 
the sun’s rays are not so intolerable as might be 
imagined, on account of the perpetual verdure and 
refreshing north-east breeze. See what numbers of 
broad and rapid rivers intersect it in their journey to 
the ocean, and that not a stone or a pebble is to be 
found on their banks, or in any part of the country, 
till your eye catches the hills in the interior. How 
beautiful and magnificent are the lakes in the heart 
of the forests, and how charming the forests them¬ 
selves, for miles after miles on each side of the 
rivers ! How extensive appear the savannas or 
