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Excerpt from Notes and Comments on My Trip to the Diamond Fields of British Guiana
IN fitting out an expedition, careful calculations should be made as to the amount of work intended to be done and the time to be spent in doing it; so that there may be proper provision. Appendix A. Gives the usual requirements for an expedition of ten men and a manager for two months, inclusive of the time taken going to and returning from the Fields. It is not possible to give a definite period in which the trips should be aecom plished, as this greatly depends upon the state of the river whether the water is high, low, or normal. Experience has shewn, however, that the average number of days taken for the up journey, between Bartica. And Ottawa Landing, is twelve; and for the downward trip, three and a half days. In both cases only working days are reckoned. Sometimes the up trip takes as long as twenty days, and the run down seven. Going up, the men do not work on Sundays; but, coming down, they will put out into mid-stream and drift.
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