The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-04-06
i,Ilfields in French Guiana
o.r,ncing of Sir Walter Raleigh. A
wet TO the French Governor.
.I Jurisprudence of The Journal.]

IS from town. A moment
tie capital we were plung-
forest, where riot
leave little trace of a car
As every indication of hu-
.ity suddenly disappeared
.re woods closed like walls
e saw in our sable Jehu a
and and in each jungle a
ar or puma ora boa con-
1t by and by the smell of
eyived our dropping cour-
IF a while we came into a
, space in the midst of
wherein a terrace dug
-Ile, directly overlooking
.auds the Governors chalet
y brick cottage, long and
ded by verandas and, like
houses in French Guiana,
* stills ten feet high.
it lower beds laid out in
iarts and diamonds after
y fashion of French land
HerS; a few magnificent
lud a flight of stairs lead
the rocky beach. Before
IS a shallow sea, yellow
eat mud banks below and
go above, and dotted.with
"a Islands. Follow a path
= 4 summerhouse and you
.e first refreshing breeze
I'd YOU for many a day-a
wind from the south
ID not go into details re-
lncheon. OF course the
Hess, according to French
good Governor and his
,eness personilied.
back to town it is we'll to
one of the many convict
5 of the colony; but it
ne exterior only. for even
y. the Governor, has not
anti strangers to enter. AT
are about 1000 prisoners
p confinement in the vari-
penal settlements on the
Maroni, the islands of Sa-
e. suburbs of Cayenne. Be-
Ipward of a thousand con-
wed to roam at will about
wut are not permitted to
q hundreds more, whose
NICE expired and who are
SIS and among the first
# French Guiana is little
chapter of disasters ever
r,t lil-starred expedition
". sent out in 1904, down
lay When Martinique--the
u with which it stands in
nercial relationS-imposed
all de vie, thereby almost
top to its Importation.
S irst settled about the
d small colony of traders
who one and all came to
yl fever or misfortune.
table failures in the way
III schemes followed dur
sJarter century, the most
"Hlch were the Campagnia
lr the Campagnia de la
i1Xlale, and the Campag-
~rigneurs. The Campag-
rs Nccidentals, started in
monopoly of Guiana com
3 Years, succeeded a little
1Iy after it had passed
-st control of the Crown.
century was marked by
DISASTER. The reader of
my doubtless remembers
seal. The prime minister,
med for himself and his
IF most of the territory
b, French Guiana, sent
Jnteer colonists from Al
r.a.ne, in the year 1863.
pp!e We're landed at the
kotlron river, where no
al been made for their
even fresh water could
ed. 1t is said that misman-
e reached its grotesque !
was a large supply of
WOODEN cloth within one
Pc eqaatorl but no agricul- !
-uts had been provided, or
lag any impression on the
or medicines, or the COM
Ssaries Of life. AS a natu-
a year less than one
Ie famished and fever
remained alive.
long investigation by
rut of Paris, but nothing
beyond the already sut-
pustrated fact that some
1ndered. Many minor at
Z subsequently, made to
4la, always with the same
ing the terrible times of
on. band after band of
.ouers was transported to
iua. The fate of the 600
.bo were exiled on the
Fructidor was a fair
on the Sinnamary
It food or shelter, in a
tenths of them miserably
1T the beginning of the
larry, the good Governor
aged to put the colony in
tier shape; but his benz
was soon cut short by the
the Portuguese and the
Iough nominally restored
.th as early as 1914, the
Us practically held by the
or many years afterwards,
lslng interest in Guiana
Z founding of penal estab-
ltirely changed the charac-
ii life. From earliest days
vast deposits of precious
life, but none of it actually
until about 81 years ago,
st placers were disclosed to
by the information of an
II celebrated Atprenague
: Company was the result,
i~3Gl; and later the more
ompagnie Martaroni, which
I'll exported gold to the
100000 francs. While in
| secured a genuine
nasty little volume which
Ian Sir Walter Raleigh's
of his first voyage to these
Ia 1875. After perusing it
Z reconciled to the behead-
tlidnt old nObleman at the