Word: demarara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which he said existed there. The war halted these attempts at reform, but now they have been resumed and may lead to the abolition of the colony. Colonel Furlong will tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued on to Cayenne, where he observed the tragic life of the French convicts. From there he crossed the Maroni River to Albina, the frontier of Dutch Guiana, where he visited the villages of the Carid Indians and the primitive bush negroes. With the negroes...
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