Excerpt from The Indian Tribes of Guiana: Their Condition and Habits; With Researches Into Their Past History, Superstitions, Legends, Antiquities, Languages, &C The Aborigines of Guiana, who form the chief subject of the following pages, are of no political impmtance. The country is indeed a good land and a large; but civilized man has settled on its coast, and the Indian races, who still possess the vast regions of the interior, are very scanty in number. Scattered over tracts as wide as some populous countries in Europe are fewer souls than are usually sent into eternity by civilized nations in the course of one campaign. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.