Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, Volume 4J. Thomson, 1885 |
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Pagina 177 - ... guttapercha, and this is especially manifested in some of its physical characters, for instance, it is somewhat softer at ordinary" temperature, and not so rigid in the cold.
Pagina 132 - Arawaks could not be found in any part of the province; murders and violent cases of assault were of frequent occurrence, but now the case is reversed ; no outrages of any description ever happen ; they attend regularly Divine Service, their children are educated, they themselves dress neatly, are lawfully married, and as a body, there are no people, in point of general good Conduct, to surpass them. This change, which has caused peace and contentment to prevail, was brought about solely through...
Pagina 177 - Nevertheless, balata is distinctly different from gutta-percha, and this is specially manifested in some of its physical characters; for instance, it is somewhat softer at ordinary temperature and not so rigid in the cold.
Pagina 177 - It seems that balata is treated by the manufacturers simply as a superior kind of gutta-percha, and, therefore, its name disappears when manufactured.
Pagina 40 - The first impression was oue of inability mentally to grasp such surroundings ; the next that one was entering on some strange country of nightmares for which an appropriate and wildly fantastic landscape had been formed, some dreadful and stormy day, when, in their mid career, the broken and chaotic clouds had been stiffened in a single instant into stone. For all around were rocks and pinnacles of rocks of seemingly impossibly fantastic forms, standing in apparently impossibly fantastic ways —...
Pagina 128 - Stevens will sell by auction, at his Great Rooms, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, about the third week in October, the Collections of British Insects formed by the above-named gentlemen.
Pagina 40 - ... of the Royal Geographical Society for August, 1885. Mr. im Thurn found the ascent difficult, but by no means so arduous as he had expected. He describes his feelings on approaching the top as follows : — "Where one step more would bring our eyes on a level with the top, and we should...
Pagina 131 - I first arrived in this district, many years before any missionary was appointed to it, a more disorderly people than the present Arawaks could not be found in any part of the province ; murders and violent cases of assaults were of frequent occurrence. But now the case is reversed — no...
Pagina 131 - ... untutored Indian, and so effectually to keep him from harm's way, if I may so express it, as religious instruction ; and being thoroughly convinced of the ultimate success which the adoption of such course would ensure, I must respectfully suggest the re-establishment of Waramuri Mission ; and if a fit and proper person be appointed to it, and he becomes acquainted with the Indians entrusted to his care, murders and every description of crime will vanish like a shadow from amongst them. "The...
Pagina 208 - BO far as to warrant the importation of steam machinery to be applied to its extraction, and by a fortunate accident I have discovered how to dry or coagulate it, preserving the characteristic of elasticity at a single operation, by the addition of a simple ingredient not very costly.