Observations on the climate, soil, and productions of British Guiana : and on the advantages of emigration to, and colonizing the interior of, that country ; together with incidental remarks on the diseases, their treatment and prevention : founded on a long experience within the tropics / by John Hancock.
- Hancock, John, 1808-1890
- Date:
- 1840
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the climate, soil, and productions of British Guiana : and on the advantages of emigration to, and colonizing the interior of, that country ; together with incidental remarks on the diseases, their treatment and prevention : founded on a long experience within the tropics / by John Hancock. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![But the multifarious objects of industry and enterprise presented in Guiana are beyond conception, and can be but imperfectly indicated here. In short, all the advan- tages of a fruitful and most healthy climate point out the interior parts of British Guiana as one of the most eligible countries in the world for emigration, and more especially so for destitute families ; and the numbers unemployed who are totally unable to meet the expenses of emigration to Australia or to Canada, seem to point out Guiana not only as a most desirable situation, but as the only available one for the poorer and more destitute part of the community ; the usual voyage here being not more than a month or six weeks, whilst to Van Diemen's Land or Australia the du- ration of the voyage is more than quadruple that to Guiana. Vegetable Productions. The timber on these lands would at least repay the trouble of clearing them. It would be advisable, perhaps, to allow many of the larger trees to remain, especially the more valuable fruit-trees ; such, for instance, as the asse- poca, borroway, touruneru, which belong to the Sa])otace<p, and of which natural family there are many others un- known to botanists : they bear delicious fruits, and furnish timber of great value: as also the saowary (Pekea tubercu- losa of Aublet), which bears in vast abundance one of the richest and largest nuts in the world ; it is much used by the inland tribes, and is justly esteemed by them as highly alimentary and restorative. The acqueru is a palm of mo- derate size, the fruit of which affords an abundance of a sweet bland oil, of a golden yellow colour, and of the finest quality. The large sweet and juicy fruit of the oubudi, (Ana- cultivated; but other species of this tree are natural to Guiana, as the Fustic (Morns tincloria,) which affords the yellow dye-wood of com-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21021351_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
