Bartica

[ bahr-tee-kuh ]

/ bɑrˈti kə /

a town in N Guyana, on the Essequibo River: river transportation center.

QUIZZES

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Question 1 of 10

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The starting out place for the trip was twenty miles from Georgetown at a town upriver called Bartica.
Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds|William La Varre
The Bartica collection contains a Megalopta from Hoorie, but it is unfortunately broken.
Bees from British Guiana|T. D. A. Cockerell
Write a message to Maidley and theyll take it to Bartica and give it to the telegraph office there.
The Radio Detectives in the Jungle|A. Hyatt Verrill
But as Bartica has only twenty inhabitants we bought everything in Georgetown.
Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds|William La Varre

They were paddling slowly, weary and tired after a long day of portaging, passing with the tide down to Bartica.
Jungle Peace|William Beebe