Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844, Vol. 1: Translated and Edited, With Geographical and General Indices, and Route MapsWinter, b.sc., Government Geological Surveyor, has thus supplied me with certain foot-notes relative to the geology and miner alogy, Dr. F. G. Rose, Government Bacteriologist, has similarly given me valuable information with regard to Medicine and Sanita tion, while Mr. James Rodway, the Curator of the Museum and our Colony's Historian (j R.) has made many a sacrifice of time, labour and patience in searching up the latest references to the natural history and antiquities.I have also to thank my son, Mr. Vincent Roth, Warden and Govern ment Surveyor at Arakaka, for drawing the maps and for the thankless task of typing the whole mss. For the printer. Strange to say, the great est portion of the typing was done in his boat whilst travelling, or at night in camp, often to the huge wonder, and occasionally to the terror of unsophisticated Indians who had never seen a typewriter before many of them descendants of those actually described in the subject matter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.