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Title: Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society (Georgetown, Guyana
Subjects: Agriculture Anthropology Zoology
Publisher: (S.l.) : Argosy Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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lm leaves are carefully placed over the gunplatform so as to protect the gun. If the trap is set for deer the watchman is of greater length like-wise the gun platform itself to allow for the height of the animal. Thesetraps are always arranged so that the charge catches the animal behindthe shoulder. Gun traps, when set for labba or accourie, may be sprungby crapauds, armadillos or rats. In one instance which I heard of, atrap was set off by the dead bough of a tree dropping on the stringthereof. Incidentally it is advisable to visit the trap soon after theexplosion is heard otherwise the prey may be carried off by a labba-tiger—■which not infrequently happens. Anyone who is familiar with tha bush and its wealth of noises wellknows that a nocturnal booming detonation which echoes for miles throughthe surrounding bush is sometimes heard and indicates that somewhereor other a gun trap has been exploded and very probably there is onelive labba the less in British Guiana. 206 Timehri,
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LETTER TO THE EDITORS. From Fr. 0. Cooksey, S.J. No one can be more thankful to Mr. Hyatt Verrill than I for hisvery investing contributions, and I write this to fill up a little of his data. On page 14 he mentions my exploration at Akawabi and as someof the find is in t he Societys Museum I think you may be glad to havemy observations. Akawabi, or as we usually called it Wauno, was discovered by Fr.S. Gillet, S.J., who was the first white man to visit it, the inhabitants say,it consisted of a scattered population of nearly 200 inhabitants as I foundwhen I prepared a supplementary census when the official census takerfinding no one at Akawabi did not trouble to ascend the forks of theWauno (Crane) Creek. From Catherine of Akawabi, I gathered several Indian stories. My visits were part of a systematic visitation which I made accordingto a time-table which 1 published in 1910, 1911 and 1912, and were formissionary purposes with antiquarian digressions when time permitted.I was hampered

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