[ON PRESERVING BIRDS FOR CABINETS OF NATURAL HISTORY]
WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA
[FIRST JOURNEY]
----nec herba, nec latens in asperis
Radix fefellit me locis.
In the month of April 1812 I left the town of Stabroek to travel through the wilds of Demerara and Essequibo, a part of ci-devant Dutch Guiana, in South America.
The chief objects in view were to collect a quantity of the strongest wourali poison and to reach the inland frontier-fort of Portuguese Guiana.