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WANDERINGS IN 
THIRD 
JOURNEY. 
to acquire a fortune, he soon changes his habits. 
No longer under “ strong necessity’s supreme com¬ 
mand,” he contrives to get out of bed betwixt nine 
and ten in the morning. His servant helps him to 
dress, he walks on a soft carpet to his breakfast table, 
his wife pours out his tea, and his servant hands him 
his toast. After breakfast, the doctor advises a little 
gentle exercise in the carriage for an hour or so. 
At dinner-time he sits down to a table groaning 
beneath the weight of heterogeneous luxury : there 
he rests upon a chair for three or four hours, eats, 
drinks, and talks (often unmeaningly) till tea is an¬ 
nounced. He proceeds slowly to the drawing-room, 
and there spends best part of his time in sitting, till 
his wife tempts him with something warm for supper. 
After supper, he still remains on his chair at rest, 
till he retires to rest for the night. He mounts 
leisurely up stairs upon a carpet, and enters his bed¬ 
room : there, one would hope, that at least he mut¬ 
ters a prayer or two, though perhaps not on bended 
knee : he then lets himself drop into a soft and 
downy bed, over which has just passed the comely 
Jenny’s warming-pan. Now, could the Indian in 
his turn see this, he would call the white men a lazy, 
indolent set. 
Perhaps then, upon due reflection, you would 
draw this conclusion ; that men will always be in¬ 
dolent, where there is no object to rouse them. 
As the Indian of Guiana has no idea whatever of 
communicating his intentions by writing, he has 
fallen upon a plan of communication sure and simple. 
