[4] Readers of Kingsley's grand Westward Ho! will remember the description of La Guayra and the coast here too.
[5] The emissary was instructed to suggest the interesting trade policy of a "goods for goods" exchange: a policy which in Latin America and elsewhere might have an important future.
[6] This natural canal has been well described in The Flowing Road, by Caspar Whitney.
[7] Venezuela, op. cit.
[8] Cf. Colombia, op. cit. Also Venezuela.
[9] Venezuela, op. cit.
[10] Colombia, op. cit.
[11] Venezuela, op. cit.
[12] Venezuela, op. cit.
[13] There is an indication that British Guiana is itself awakening to the need for exerting itself, in order to bring itself before the notice of a somnolent Mother Country. A deputation arrived in England from the colony in the middle of 1919 charged with the purpose of interviewing the Secretaries for the Colonies and Indian Government, and they went through a course of dinners, meetings and lectures, in which the customary excellent speeches were made. Certain of the speakers made the asservations that British Guiana "could supply all the meat, except mutton, consumed in the Mother Country," and sugar and minerals received equal notice, whilst gold, diamonds and bauxite—an ore of aluminium—were also dangled, metaphorically speaking, before the Imperial-minded diners.