Excerpt from British Guiana: Or Work and Wanderings Among the Creoles and Coolies, the Africans and Indians of the Wild Country<br><br>It was a cold, bleak morning in November that the good ship Incomparable started out on her voyage of nearly five thousand miles. We were not many passengers, and so we soon became acquainted with each other. There was one person, however, whom we could not quite make out. He was neither an Officer Of the ship nor a passenger. And as he came down into the saloon regularly to dine with us we began to speculate as to who and What he might be. On inquiry we found that his work was a most important one. He had been sent on board to adjust the compasses.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.