| Show Doti bolting ting on tho the river in the fall of 1895 1805 1 I set forth again with another companion this time going up the river we took a r small mall outfit A prospectors first duty at georgetown Is to obtain a license from the colonial government lie ile must engage ills his men for tour four months and advance them from five to eight dollars per man their wages are two shillings a day about half a dollar in our money and their rations like tho the wages are regulated by the government A prospector on the usually employs from five to ten colored laborers by steamer he proceeds from georgetown to the E sequito seq river and a few miles above the J junction of that river with the lie he arrives at bartuca grove where a british gold station Is situated there he engages a boat with a captain who steers a bowman who stands at the bow to avoid rocks and four boatmen unless he has enough laborers in his party to dispense with lah the boatmen it takes from fourteen to twenty men to man one of these open boats tile the government regulations compel a prospector to hire a captain and a bowman the formers wages being fixed at three dollars a day and the bowmans at a dollar and a half Con century tury |
