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ropes side,' who is spending an en-.
| forced lifelong vacation" there.
Syria, the nearest Asiatic posses
sion, has been French by mandate Of
the supreme council of allied powers
since 1923. Three million Syrians,
Jews and foreigners inhabit this area
Frequent uprisings have tested the
success Of French colonization in this
region.
French India consists of five diminu-
tive colonies; Maize on the west coast
| short distance north of Calicut;
Karikal, Pondicherry and Yanaon on
the east coast. Chandernagore lying
north of Calcutta, is so surrounded on
the map by British pink that geog-
raphy student could easily miss finding
it without an apology.
Summing up French India the five
French "spots" if placed together
would cover space no larger than
one and one-half times the area Of
Philadelphia, Pa; and Rochester, N.
Y, could more than house it's popula-
ton, most of which is Hindu.
French Indo-China which is almost
mile for mile equal in area to Texas
is perhaps the most progressive of all
French possessions. While counting
the nearly 2O,0OO,000 natives and for
eigners here, the census enumerator
Travelled through one of the worlds
great rice producing areas and thou
sands of acres of mulberry trees-food
for silk worms, the basis of large
Indo-China silk industry.
Off the northeast coast of Australia
lie the Loyalty islands and many
smaller groups, and the New Hebrides
which are governed Jointly by the
French and British. Many of the A.
800 inhabitants of these islands are
pagan natives. Cannibalism is not
openly. practiced but it is said the
tribesmen eat the foes they kill in
tribal warfare. With welts decorating
their bodies, sticks of wood thrust
through their nostrils, bushy hair and
scanty clothing, some of the tribesmen
would not be good subjects for collar
duo OOl1lO VI IAS oluCA d0IlFCS nave
holes in their ears which once held
wooden disks but now are used for
pipe racks.
South Pacific Islands.
Tahiti is more interesting and al
Turing. It is the center of the Society
islands and not far off are the Mar
quesas, the Tubuai group, Tuamotu
Archipelago, Gambler and Rapa is.
lands, where singing, dancing, feasting
and all that suggest happiness and ro-
nance permeate the atmosphere.
1t is a long journey from Tahiti to
Gaudeloupe and Martinique Of the
Lesser Antilles with their half million
white, mulatto, negro and oriental in
habitants. Martiniques people have
not forgotten the eruption of Mt. Pele
in 1902 when the city of St. Pierre was
wiped out.
French Guiana, one of the "Euro-
pean triplets" of South Americas
north coast, has less than $4,000 In
dams and blacks who live in the fever
infested coastal swamps and torrid
forests of the hinterland. Although
diamonds, silver, mercury, tin and cop
per have been found in the colony, it
is yet to be extensively developed.
DEVILS isle, famous French penal
island, lies off the coast of French
Guiana. Napoleon III called DEVILS
isle the DRY Guillotine" and in recent
decades writer's of fantastic tales have
painted terrifying word-pictures of the
island
With it's neighbors, Isle Royale and
st. Joseph's island, DEVILS isle makes
up the Isles du Salut isles of Saliva
tion). Tier upon tier of prison build
ings rise on Isle Royale to which in.
corrigibles from other French Guiana
prisons are sent for discipline. On st.
Joseph's are hospital and administra-
ton buildings.
Nearly the entire foreign population
of French Guiana is made up of men
and women who have been convicted
of crimes in the French courts In the
coast towns and in the hinterland
farming and mining regions are There's
-convicts whose days Of confinement
have ended.
French North America, until the
Clipperton Rock award consisted of
two rocky islands off the southern
coast of Newfoundland which are peo.
pied by about 1000 sturdy fisherfolk
of Breton and Norman stock.