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Bands, steel, 61–2
Barama River, 158, 193, 195
Barbados: illiteracy rate in, 21n.;
Constitution of, 136

Barima River, 5, 158, 164, 193, 194
Bartica, 154, 155, 159, 162, 164,
184; District Commissioner at,
166; Triangle, 185; track from,
to Issano, 203

Bauxite, 16, 98, 151, 157, 158,
177-83

Beckman, Samuel, 34
Beebe, William: Jungle Peace, 223;
Jungle Days, 223; Edge of the
Jungle, 223; Tropical Wild
Life in British Guiana, 223
Bell-bird, 172

Benfield, Eric, 104, 105
Berbice County: slave insurrection

of 1763, 38; taken in turn by
English and French, in 1781,
38; agricultural importance
of, 108; rice production in,
108; sugar estates in, 108
River, 7, 35, 97, 155, 160
Berkel, Adriaan van: Travels in
South America between the
Berbice and Essequibo Rivers,
1670-89, 222

Berreo, Antonio de, 29

Berry, Captain, go

Birds, forest, 171; Georgetown,

11-2

Birth-control, 175

Blairmont Plantation, 97

Blomfield, Sir Arthur, 13
Blount, Arthur, 177
Blue Mountains, 37

Bobb, Rev. D. C. J., 144; on federa-
tion, 145-6

Bonasika Creek, 41
Booker Brothers, McConnell and

Company Ltd., 27, 85-92; re-
search laboratory, 76; Cadet
scheme, 89; experiment in
peasant cane-farming, 91-2;
plans for factory improve-
ment, 95, 112

Josias, 85

Brazil, 154, 156, 166; cheap air
transport in, 160

nuts, 167

British Guiana Airways, 26-7, 160
Consolidated Goldfields, 158,

164, 183

East Indian Association, 141
(Electoral Provisions) Order-
in-Council 1956, 209

Rice Development Co., 68
Rice Marketing Bd., 69n., 70
Timbers Ltd., 164, 185ff.
occupation: early attempts at,
29-32; second period, 1796–
1802, 40–1; progress under, 40;
final occupation from 1803, 41
population, 56–7; Government
officials, 57

Trades Union Congress, 140, 141
Brown, C. Barrington: Canoe and
Camp Life in British Guiana,
223

Brutus, Dorothy, 104
Burnham, L. F. S., 47, 131, 133-5,
136, 139, 142

Burrowes, E. R., 129

Buxton, communal settlement at,
42; modern village of, 42-4
Sir Thomas, 41

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Cecil, Lord (First Earl of Salis-
bury), 32

Central Mining and Investment
Corporation Ltd., 194
Chapman, Jimmy, 101, 106, 107
Château Margot Plantation, 65
Chinese: indentured labour immi-

grants, 43; their descendants
today, 56; aloofness from the
community, 56; love of gamb-
ling, 56; in the Interior, 162
Cholmondeley, H. M. E., 123
Christianburg, 178
Chronicle, the, 11
Clarke, Gedney, 36

Clementi, Sir Cecil: A Constitu-

tional History of British
Guiana, 223

Coastland, the: varying stages of
achievement in different areas,
117; population of, 151
Cock-of-the-Rock, 171–2
Coconut, the: suffering from 'wilt'
and insect pests, 62; home con-
sumption of, 63
Industry Committee, 63
Coffee (liberica), 193; grown by

early settlers, 44

Colonial Development Corpora-
tion, 69, 158, 183, 185

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Daly, P. H., 123; Story of the
Heroes, 223

Dances, African, 129
Davson's Plantation, 85
Dead, the, ritual surrounding,
106-7

Demerara: slave insurrection in,
36; economic programme,
eighteenth century, 37; taken
by English in 1781 war, 38;
taken by French, 38; takes pre-
cedence over Essequibo, 39;
Hood arrives at, and demands
surrender of colony, 41;
'Demerara hospitality', 57-8
Bauxite Company (Demba), 178
and n., 179 and n., 182-3
Railway Company, 23--5
River, 5, 8, 35, 152, 155–6,

journey up, 174

194;

sugar, production process, 74
Determination village, 192
Development: figures of expendi-
ture on, 221; Two-year Pro-
gramme, 159

Diamond Plantation, 8
Diamonds, 158–9, 162

Doyle, Conan: The Lost World,
156

Drainage, lack of in coastal areas,
68

Dudley, Sir Robert, 29

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Dutch West India Company, 32-3,
35; giving of feudal rights
to 'patrons', 33; monopoly
of slave trade by, 46; ex-
ploration of Interior, 37;
expiration of Charter 1792,
39

East Indians, 7–8, 50–3; dialect, 11;
as indentured labour, 43-5;
percentage of population, 45;
increasing literacy among, 51;
effect on, of granting indepen-
dence to India, 51; necessity
for acquiring Guianese out-
look, 52; fear of racial ten-
sion, 52-3; comparison with
Africans, 53; eating habits, 63;
thrift, 81-2; sense of grievance,
86; villages near New Amster-
dam, 108; modern cultural
standards, 119, 120; opposi-
tion to federation, 147
Education, 21–2; lack of scientific
and technical training, 21;
primary schools, 22; church
schools, 22, 82; dual control,
22; necessity for wider form
of, 121; need to encourage
students going overseas, 121
El Dorado, 29, 30, 31, 158, 183, 201
Encounter, 137n.

Enmore Plantation, 1948 riots on,
81
Essequibo: taken by British in
1781 war, 38; taken by
French, 38; placed second in
importance to Demerara, 39
River, 33, 35, 37, 154, 185;
quarries on, 6; transport up,
159
Europe, help from for backward
territories, 89

Ezquibel, Juan d', 33n.

Federation of the West Indies,

144-8; London Conference
on, 144; British Guiana
opposition to, 144-8

Fertilizers: from sugar cane sludge,
74; necessity for on flood-
fallowed land, 76; difficulties
of using 200-1

Fishing, 192; by bow and arrow,

202

'Flood-fallowing' of land, 75-6
Folk arts, absence of, 129
Follett-Smith, R. R., 95, 96
Ford, Henry, 161

Forest land, 152, 153, 185-90;
products of, 167; journey
through, 204

Fort Dauphin, 38

St. Andries, 97

Fox, Charles James, 41

France, eighteenth-century Hugue-
not settlers from, 36
Franchise, 1927 extension of, 46
Frangipani, 16 and n.
French Guiana, go

Fruit farming, 175
Fullerton, Jeremiah, 104
Kathleen, 104

Gajraj, R. B., 146-7

Gelskerke, Commandeur, 35
Geological Survey Department,
194

Geology of the colony, 157-9
Georgetown, 7, 9; night in, 9;
Main Street, 10; Water Street,
10; daily programme in, 11–
12; newspapers, 11; birds, 12;
architecture, 12–13; cathedral,
13; Dutch buildings, 14-15;
Stabroek Market, 15; Public
Buildings, 15; African popu-
lation, 15; the Parklands, 16;
zoo, 17; cemetery, 18; Albouys-
town, 18; Campbellville, 18;
Kitty, 21; Queen's College, 21;
Sea Wall, 23; Governor's resi-
dence, 25; Saturday night at

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Gravesande, Laurens Storm van's,
35-7, 207, 222; encouragement
of settlers, 36; interest in ex-
ploration of the Interior, 37;
constructive policy, 37
Greenheart, 185-7, 189-90, 202;
skilled hewing of, 186

Guiana Industrial Workers'
Union, 141, 216
Guianization, 119–21, 166
Gutch, John, 142

Haiti, African plastic arts in, 129
Harcourt, Robert, 30-1; A Rela-

tion of a Voyage to Guiana,
30-1, 222

Harris, Wilson, 'The Spirit of the
Fall', 128-9
Harrison, Sir John, 159; Geology
of the Goldfields of British
Guiana, 158; discovery of
bauxite by, 178

Hastings, Warren, 118
Haywood, Colonel E. J., 93-4
Heal, Father, 100-1, 106
Hinden, Dr. Rita, 137n.

Hindu religion, 81; festivals in,
116

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Holland: war with England, 1781,
38; further war, 1796, 39. See
also Dutch

Hood, Admiral, 41
Hopkinson, Henry, 208
Hortsman, Nicolas, 37
Hosororo, Roman Catholic mis-

sion at, 195, 197
Housing, 18-21; difficulties in
slum clearance, 18-21; rehous-
ing projects for sugar workers,
70-80

Howard University, 114
Howler Monkey, the, 170
Humming-bird, 172

Hutchinson, Frederick: land re-

clamation projects, 93
Hydro-electric power experiments,
184-5

Illegitimacy, African attitude to,
175-6

Illiteracy rate, 21 and n.
Imbaimadai, 166

India: abolition of indenture

system by government, 45
Indians. See Amerindians and East

Indians

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Kanuku Mountains, 153, 156-7,
159, 167, 201

Keymis, Lawrence, 30, 31, 32
Kijk-over-al, 33, 34

Kijk-over-al, 122, 123

Insecticides, spraying of by air, 76 King, Albert, 105-6

Interim Government, 93

Interior, Department of the, 165–
6; Commissioner for, 165-6;
District Commissioners, 166;
District Officers and Wardens,
166
International Bank for Recon-
struction and Development,
Report of, 25, 27, 90, 173, 189,
223
Commission, 156

Confederation of Trade Unions,

40

Society of Differing Civiliza-
tions, 208

Ireng River, 153

Iron, 16

'Islanders', 162

Sidney, 138

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