Roraima and British Guiana, With a Glance at Bermuda, the West Indies, and the Spanish Main

RORAIMA.

RORAIMA AND BRITISH GUIANA WITH A GLANCE AT BERMUDA, THE WEST INDIES, AND THE SPANISH MAIN.
BY J. W. BODDAM-WHETHAM, AUTHOR OF ‘PEARLS OF THE PACIFIC,’ ‘ACROSS CENTRAL AMERICA,’ ETC.
VIEW ON THE CURIPUNG RIVER.
LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1879.
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“Will no one explore Roraima, and bring us back the tidings which it has been waiting these thousands of years to give us? One of the greatest marvels and mysteries of the earth lies on the outskirt of one of our own colonies—only not within British territory because the frontier line has been bent in at the spot, on purpose, it would seem, to shut it out—and we leave the mystery unsolved, the marvel uncared for.”