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,
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
Brazil, 154, 156, 166; cheap air transport in, 160
British Guiana Airways, 26-7, 160 Consolidated Goldfields, 158,
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
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
Colonial Development Corpora- tion, 69, 158, 183, 185
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,
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
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
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,
'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
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
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
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,
Society of Differing Civiliza- tions, 208
Ireng River, 153
Iron, 16
'Islanders', 162
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