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...guillotine, where men are sent to a known death and soon lose at hope" such is the penal colony of Cayenne, according to Colonel C. W. Furlong, speaking at the Union last night on "The Wild River Lands of the Guianas...
...Colonel Furlong then described in striking words the horrible conditions under which the convicts have to labor. "But the most terrible part of it all is the condition of the men after a few years there--their wasted and diseased bodies and their pathetic faces, from which hope has long disappeared. Ev-everything about them is expressive of gloom and tragedy, from the sharks that gather about the island when the death of a convict is announced by the tolling of the bell, to the dead convicts found outside the dormitories after the night brawls, in which the guards...
...Furlong Has Done Almost Everything...
...been sunk a century before by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur of the American Navy. In South America, in 1907 he made extensive explorations, and collected valuable material which was afterward presented to the American Museum of Natural History, and the Peabody Museum of the University. In 1912, Colonel Furlong turned his attention to the Western part of this country and won the world's rough-riding championship by riding the bucking bull, "Sharkey". Several foreign governments decorated him for distinguished service during the World...
...Penal Colony in French Guiana gained notice from the French government and led to agitation for reform of the terrible conditions 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...