Indian Notices

Hilhouse, William, Indian Notices: or sketches of the habits, characters, languages, superstitions, soil and climate of the several nations; with remarks on their capacity for colonization, present government and suggestions for future improvement and civilization; also the icthyology of the fresh waters of th interior, Georgetown: National Commission for Research Materials on Guyana, 1978.

From the Introduction by M. N. Menezes, RSM, Ph.D.:

The author of Indian Notices, William Hilhouse, was one of the most versatile, interesting, and controversial figures in the early history of British Guiana. He arrived in British Guiana about 1815 (LH 1 July 1831) and for twenty five years until his death in May 1840 he was well known to the Colonial Office, the local legislature, and the press through his voluminous writings on a variety of subjects. Hilhouse described himself ... as "a colonist of Demerara, by necessity a permanent resident" (p. 130) and later as "a field engineer and practical agriculturist" (LRGS, 30 July 1839). He was an ex-member of the Staff Corps, a good land surveyor, and at one time an attorney of a small estate on the west coast of Demerara.

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