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...Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors; 2) seizing British and Dutch ships on the ground that "personal enemies of myself are being nurtured in British and French Guiana;" and 3) grossly insulting the French Government by refusing to allow their Minister to Venezuela to land, "because I suspect that the fellow has yellow fever!"-an impish charge unsubstantiated by any fact...
...Indictment. Every year France sends a dismal shipload of some 700 convicts to her penal colony in French Guiana -north of Brazil, southeast of Venezuela. Here the condemned, one-half of whom die in the first year, eke out a prison sentence with hard labor, followed by continued exile; the avowed purpose being: "expiation of crime, regeneration of the guilty, and the protection of Society." That the purpose has been sadly travestied is common gossip abroad, but Blair Niles went to see for herself...
Broken in spirit and body, Michel became at last "liberé" (fantastic name for those wretches who survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting...
...that jungle-covered spot of northern South America, where Venezuela, British Guiana and Brazil touch each other angularly, is Mt. Roraima, famed among travelers and explorers. It is a huge wall of red rock that rises, like a ruddy tree trunk, 1,500 ft. sheer above the surrounding plateau and altogether some 8,500 ft. above sea level. It seems unscalable...
From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...