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Title: The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ...
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Chubb, Charles McConnell, Frederick Vavasour, d. 1914 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill Milne, H. F., engraver Slud, Paul, former owner. DSI Bale & Danielsson, lithographer
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Bernard Quaritch ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ta neai-ly six weeks before starting forRoraima, waiting for the return of the despatch boat with letters, andtrying to get on intimate terms with the people. During this time wewere unable to make any small trips to the Kanuku ISIountains and tlieTakutu, as we had pi-eviously arranged, owing to the flooded state ofthe savannas; the water was al.so too high to allow us to look forarapaima or cayman, of which we were anxious to .secure specimens. When we had been at the village a few days, about a dozen Arecunasarrived from Roraima, and informed us that, hearing we were anxiousto go to their part of the country, they had come to e.scort us. It wa.sa mystery to us how they could have leceived this information, as theirhome was nine day.s fast walking from Kwaimatta, but news travelsquickly by some unknown means in the .savannas. It w\as impo.ssiblefor us to stArt then, and we were oV>liged to tell them to return in amonth, so after examining our barter and expiessing their s«itis- o
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ITINEHARV. XIX faction they left, inteudiiig to .stay in the lueautime at Irewang. a smallvillage under the Takutu hills, a days journey to the north-west ofKwaimatta ; before they left we bought two hammocks from them inexchange for white salt, a great luxury to them, the only substituteAvhich they were able to obtain for themselves being very inferiorstuff from some swamp in the savanna. Very little of interest happened during our stay at the village. Wewere out the greater part of each day with our guns looking for birds,and in the end succeeded in obtaining a very fair collection. One ofour favourite w^alks after the water had dried off a little fi-om thesurrounding country was down to a large pond or keeriha about threemiles from the village. Trees, on which were a large number oforchids, particularly the Cattelya superba, grew thickly on all sides,but a path ran round for the convenience of fishing. One end of thewater was thickly covered with Victoria regia, the gigantic water-

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