, 1877-02-10

to anticipate slcb a slow response. +
a curious method OF expressing despair
and yet at the same time an Illustration of the
utter depth of poverty 10 Whi0h Ia lower
classes of India sometimes reach i to be
found in tie report of an Indian newspaper
Of a woman Offering to sell a child two years
oil for i annas. Her offer not being accepted,
she deserted he child, bu! WAS Induced to take
it back on being paid 2 ~aGnas-about three
peAce-tor her immediate wants. Yet some
people Object to emigration!
Mr.. B ighf, in a speech ut R)chdale. has
been discussing free trade in sugar. he
poia's o the Ia gely inetea5,d jmporta,i1ns Of
81, + into til, Unii>l X lon us a proof Of
The success of that tree trade policy, aud he
even says that the colonies have been prosper.
ol' as i res lit. That i, Mr.. B ight's view.
The colonies would plh'ps tk8 a diF'rsat
one. Ths only Advantage tia: has f,llowed
the poity whiah M Bright 50 highly com.
menis las been chi yrd by .ho slave countries
Tho sugar tha' has 50 largely come into this
country since lS46 has bean slave grown sugar
for waich We have t. TIA X NJ. Bright and his
ficnd5 the "fce" trades. Mr.. Bright fur
ther says that The col3uies never complain now,
that they never send petitions to Parliament.
Bat Ia tAis he is cutie wong. |: is OF course
true that the c0I1Iie3 never petition Pariia.
meat ia tho expedition Of having justice done
to til -ir cue. That, "a every o0e knows, is
an old world d7lusiou. B 1t as n matter Of
fact, the coloni $ have eout petitions home.
even during the las: tw) sessions of Parlia.
meut, complaining Of tho advantage given to
slave inbour at their exp n'o by Mr.. Bright's
FREQ trail policy. This utmost care will DO
taken to ca Mr.. B%ights attention to The
next petition which comes home.
"Canos and Camp Life in British Guiaua,
is he record of several trips into the Interior
of thu country made by Nc c.. Burlington
Blown in carrying out his duties az Govern.
ment Surveyor. The purely scitn'ii; results
of these voyages and journeys arc published
officially by order Of the G ,vernment, but this
volume gives the personal adventures and all
those little details which naturally find their
way in,o y rnyeller's notebook. No one since
S1hombUrgk has done 80 much as NJ. Brown
10 gdthos Information as TO the interior OF this
wollsffll %couatry, for wonderful it is with its
broad rivers, its Rushing o4taraotS, its Opan
SayanaaS and d5n83 fJre5.s. lis in ~luntainS and
It's waterfalls, its birds, It's j%t5uarS, and is
caymanS. Il is tll1, however,, that there is q
certain slmene~s about the book. The most
lngs with Indians. the passing Of ca'araots,
which seem TO b. the two principal features OF
travel in the Interior, becoming rather mono.
tonous from repetition. but this m%onotony is
very often a~greeAbly broken by the mention
of SOM strange development of Indian charac.
ter which came under the travellers ObSarva'
ton. or by some traditional tale associated Ia
the Indian mini with Il particular spot. Such
as tao story Of the Old man who had becOms q
burden 10 himself ana fiji and was put into
a boat and allowed to go over the falls.
From this circumstance. it IS said, that the
K4ieteur, or Cd Man Fall. derived its name.
Perhaps tho principal value of the book is in
the account it gives Of the state Of the Indians.
belonging 10 diff rent tribes in tbs interior OF
Gaiana. Their mode Of life, their dress, their
social re lations. their skill in procuring food
and modes of dressing it, their SuperstltiOnS
and knowledge of a higher power-all these
though not formally described by the author
are yet curiously ana in some instances rather
fully illustrated. Tine most interesting sections
Of The hoax are those which describe The visits
mp the ES,rqnib) to RlrAmia, and that up the
P1taro RIVER "a. tho Kti.teur Fall. AS Mr.
Browns name is associated with the original
discovery Ut his grand natural scene, 1t may
not he ont Of place briefly to refer to the chap
ters describing this interesting event. The
ascent of the P9taro was a very difficult pro-
cess and at one point on tho Fl st visit the ca
taracts proved iEprao icable. In expressing
his surprise at suddenly b-holding such a scene
he says =" There, however, was the dark
silent fl w of water down which We had trav.
elled, passing slowly but surely to the brink OF
a great precipice and breaking into ripples as
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