lours: for skins of prodigious snakes, of which there are some three score yards in legth: as is the skin of one that may be seen at his Majesty's Antiquaries. Where are also some rare flies of amazing forms and colours, presented to them by myself; some as big as my fist, some less; and all of various excellencies, such as art cannot imitate. Then we trade for feathers which they order into all shapes, make themselves little short habits of them, and glorious wreaths for thei heads, necks arms, and legs, whose tinctures are inconceivable. I has a set of these presented to me and I gave them to the Kings Theatre, and it was the dress of the Indian Queen.
             Let us pause here and disect this extract into proofs of Orientalism. Firstly, all the initial wonder of the vitality of nature, theparakeetos, great parrots and macaws? are soon cut and dried, firstly by only being able to be described and concieved in terms of commodity value 'shapes and colours? andlengths? are the catagorizing and quantifying poetry of this passage. The narrator moves on to describe actual worth by success of trade, 'macaws? becomefeathers? to be made into head dresses for the Enlish theatres. Here the narrator marks her superiority by being able to command and redirect the produce of the colony to theKing's theatre?,I had a set of these presented to me and I gave them to the King's theatre?. The fact that the head dress was presented to her as a gift and that she had decided the worth of this gift to be negligable to her, insteadgiving? it to a theatre, is stating an implicity power relation; the colonizer can bestow the produce of the colonies to beautify her own culture, adding realism to an exotic, heroic play 'the Indian Queen?, obviously another literatary creation of orientalism. The colony primarily understood by the narrator in economic terms. The description of the nativce indians of Surinam creates a compatible picture to this economic configuration. T...