Twenty-five Years in British Guiana.

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1898 edition by Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London.This book includes maps available as a free download.This is an Illustrated edition.The author has succeeded in giving a full and interesting account of the history and changes of the last quarter of a century in this Central American Colony. The active life still lies upon the coast-line. Georgetown is in its way as fine a city as those which old Spain erected in South America or the Antilles, and admirably administered. Mr. Kirke’s chapters on the various races which have immigrated or have been imported to provide labour are especially interesting. Half of the East Indian coolies return home, taking with them savings. The largest amount which the author saw credited to a coolie was X3,000 ! Chinamen make capital settlers, and the Portuguese are also useful citizens in a higher rank of life. The native Indians change not. They come into Georgetown almost naked, perfectly friendly, and quite satisfied to live wild in their native forests as Waterton left them. The gold industry is promising, but must be dangerous to life owing to malaria and the surroundings of tropical forest.  Read more