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" And
again: "I am sorry you did not deposit some part of your last harvest of
birds in the British Museum, that your name might become familiar to
naturalists and your unrivalled skill in preserving birds be made known to
the public." And again: "You certainly have talents to set forth a book
which will improve and extend materially the bounds of natural science."
Sir Joseph never read the third adventure. Whilst I was engaged in it,
death robbed England of one of her most valuable subjects and deprived the
Royal Society of its brightest ornament.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
FIRST JOURNEY
REMARKS
SECOND JOURNEY
THIRD JOURNEY
FOURTH JOURNEY
ON PRESERVING BIRDS FOR CABINETS OF NATURAL HISTORY
GLOSSARY
INDEX


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.


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