Category: Travel Writing
We left New York on February 22d, 1908, on the Royal Mail Steamship “Trent,” and after touching at Jamaica, Colon, Savanilla and La Guayra, we disembarked at Port of Spain, Trinidad, on March 9th. Leaving this port in a Venezuelan sloop we cruised among the caños north of the...
We left New York on February 22d, 1908, on the Royal Mail Steamship “Trent,” and after touching at Jamaica, Colon, Savanilla and La Guayra, we disembarked at Port of Spain, Trin...
2. PART II.On the 15th of February, 1909, we sailed from New York on the Steamship “Coppename” of the Royal Dutch West Indian Mail, and with only a single stop—Barbadoes—reached Georgetown...
3. PART I. OUR FIRST SEARCH.4. PART II. OUR SECOND SEARCH.5. PART I6. CHAPTER I.One day late in March, just as the tropical sun was sinking from view, our barefooted Spanish crew pulled up anchor from the muddy bottom of Port of Spain’s harbor. Slowly the s...
7. CHAPTER II.Heretofore we had sailed and paddled through a land of mangroves and water, where, with the exception of one or two tiny muddy islets in the forest, there was no solid ground. O...
8. CHAPTER III.The doings of the creatures in fur, feathers and scales kept us keenly interested from morning to night, yet in our wilderness search there were many unnatural history experienc...
9. PART II10. CHAPTER IV.Another year has slipped past and again we are southward bound, toward that Mecca—the tropics—which never ceases to call us. The time is the fifteenth of February, 1909; the pla...
11. CHAPTER V.When we left New York we had planned to go up the Demerara River from Georgetown and spend our time on the Essequibo and Potaro. We had the good fortune, however, to take the sa...
12. CHAPTER VI.We loaded our tin canisters, clothing bags, guns and cameras on a cart which was waiting and set out along the bush trail, three and a half miles to the gold mine. The trail led...
13. CHAPTER VII.The most interesting observation we made on the launch trip from Hoorie Creek down the Barama River, was of a flocking of more than two hundred big green Cassiques[150] the bird...
14. CHAPTER VIII.We allowed ourselves only forty-eight hours in Georgetown to unpack our specimens and prepare for our second expedition into the “bush.” This time we were to leave the coast and...
15. CHAPTER IX.Even more to the Gold Mine of Aremu than to Hoorie is the application “island” or “oasis” in the jungle, appropriate. The clearing is about twenty acres in extent, approximately...
16. CHAPTER X.For our supply of meat we depended altogether upon the efforts of an Indian hunter who made daily excursions from the clearing after game, and who never failed to come back heav...
17. CHAPTER XI.We had made two successful expeditions into the jungle or “bush” of Guiana, and now our third and last trip was to be in the open savanna region in the eastern portion of the Co...