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The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk Volume II The Boundary Survey, 1840-1844 - Volume II: The Boundary Survey 1840-1844 (Paperback)
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The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk Volume II The Boundary Survey, 1840-1844 - Volume II: The Boundary Survey 1840-1844 (Paperback)
Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Series
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This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited
full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and
1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily
edited versions. After his explorations in Guiana between 1835 and
1839 on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, which are the
subject of Volume I of The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk
1835-1844, Robert Schomburgk travelled to London. He was appointed
Her Majesty's Commissioner for Boundaries with the duty to survey
the boundaries of British Guiana, hitherto undefined. His surveys
between 1841 and 1843 consisted of three journeys. The first took
him to the mouth of the Orinoco River, from where he traced the
boundary south-westward to the Cuyuni River, before returning to
Georgetown. The second journey involved the survey of the boundary
with Brazil: first, south to the sources of the Takutu River; and
then north to Mount Roraima. In the third he covered the boundary
with Dutch Guiana (modern Surinam), which involved an arduous trip
down the length of the Corentyne River. Schomburgk returned to
London in 1844 and was knighted for his services. Volume II of The
Guiana Travels contains his reports of these journeys. In
abbreviated form they appeared in the Journal of the Royal
Geographical Society. Here they are published in full, including
the material censored by the Colonial Office, which mainly details
abuses of the native population committed by Venezuelans and
Brazilians. In an 'Epilogue' an account is provided of his later
career. The volume also includes two appendices: a summary of the
boundary disputes which arose as a result of Schomburgk's survey
and a vocabulary of vernacular plant names.
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