Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coppery cannibal Indians of upper Brazilian Guiana, squatting at their fires, their poisoned arrows handy on the ground, are not perturbed when a cobra slithers into camp, or a scorpion stings a foot, or a stream of venomous winged ants pours out of the jungle to dispute possession of the clearing. They are used to these annoyances, and could themselves be annoying if you should ascend the Parima River to its source and find them at home, before they have made their annual pilgrimage over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most...
...Linder '21 will speak this afternoon at the Zoological Laboratory, Room 46, before the Biological Club on "Notes on a Recent Trip to British Guiana." The lecture, which begins at 4.45, is open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...lecture tonight is on a topic that brought him into prominence before the war, when one of his articles describing life in the 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...
...failure of the French Governor of Guadeloupe to make a report on a recent bombing outrage, which occurred during an election, caused the Minister of the Colonies to despatch last week a warship to the island. Meanwhile, the Governors of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guiana and Reunion have been summoned to Paris for a conference on reforms...
Jean Hateau, citizen of Metz, is reputed to be Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean come to life. Having escaped from Cayenne, French penal settlement in Guiana, in 1904, returned to France under an assumed name, made a modest fortune, become well-known and respected in Metz, he was found out and sent to prison. Fifty prominent people of Metz petitioned the Minister of Justice in Paris for Jean Hateau's release, stating that they wanted him back as a free...