. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . e back door, as it were, of thegreat sugar plantation of Anna Regina, one of the few whichare -till in operation. We were on the home stretch and the[ndian boys lowed us the remaining distance, running at fullspeed, tumbling head over heels into the water; and forgettingfor once their usual Indian stolidness, they giggled and chat-tered as if they were out for a lark, instead of having paddled aheavily laden canoe on thirty-six hour stretches! THROUGH THE COASTAL WILDERNESS. 243 At
. Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana . e back door, as it were, of thegreat sugar plantation of Anna Regina, one of the few whichare -till in operation. We were on the home stretch and the[ndian boys lowed us the remaining distance, running at fullspeed, tumbling head over heels into the water; and forgettingfor once their usual Indian stolidness, they giggled and chat-tered as if they were out for a lark, instead of having paddled aheavily laden canoe on thirty-six hour stretches! THROUGH THE COASTAL WILDERNESS. 243 At midnight we reached the end of the canal, and a hundredyards up a road we found the Anna Regina police guard turned out, cleared away the judges bench andwitness box in the courtroom and laid blankets for us on thebenches, as there were no rafters for our hammock Indians would not come near the dreaded prison house,but left our baggage at the entrance. They said good-by asthey were to start back at once. We had grown to have areal affection for these simple men and boys, and found them. Fig. 100. The Road to best of travelling companions, silent, courteous andwonderful workers. May the time come when Marcianowill again pilot us through that beautiful region to which nopen or camera can do the slightest justice! The following morning after a walk through the neighbor-ing coolie village of Henrietta, where we purchased someYellow-bellied Callistes 112 and other birds, we secured acarriage, with a horse and a mule as motor power, and droveto Suddie, taking the steamer thence down the EssequiboRiver to Georgetown. CHAPTER VIII. THE WATER TRAIL FROM GEORGETOWN TOAREMU. T TE allowed ourselves only forty-eight hours in George- ▼ » town to unpack our specimens and prepare for oursecond expedition into the bush. This time we wereto leave the coast and strike straight inland, passing up theEssequibo River to Bartica, thence via the Mazaruni andCuyuni t
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