Mackinnon, Sergeant, 101–2, 104,

113

McTurk, Michael, 196

Madeira, indentured labour from,
55

Madison, James, 46
Mahaica River, 156
Mahaicony River, 68, 156
Mahaicony-Abary Rice Develop-
ment Scheme, 69

Maiden's Despair Plantation, 65
Makusi tribe, the, 165, 167, 222
Malali Rapids, 156

Malaria, conquest of, 45, 80, 82-3
Mambo, the, 129

Manganese, 16, 151, 158, 159, 194
Man Power Citizens' Association,
140-41, 216
Marlissa Rapids, 155

Marshall, Dr. A. H.: Report on
Local Government in British
Guiana, 67

Mary's Hope Plantation, 65
Matthews, P. F. P., 159
Matthews' Ridge, 158, 194
Mauritia flexuosa, 152n.
Mazaruni River, 33, 34, 37, 151,
162, 185, 202; difficulties of
transport up, 159

Mazaruni-Potaro District, 166
Melville family, the, 201-2
Meringue, the, 129
Merume Mountains, 154

Mes Délices Plantation, 65
Methodism, 175

Millionaire village, 192

Milk: poor quality and scarcity of,
60-1; dried, imported by
UNICEF, 202

Minerals, deficiency of, in grazing
land, 60

Missionaries, ignorance of, 165
Mittelholzer, Edgar, 49, 122, 124;

problems of mixed heredity in
his novels, 124-5; The Life
and Death of Sylvia, 125-6;
Shadows Move Among Them,
126; Children of Kaywana,

Paper-making, wood for, 188, 189
Paradise Plantation, 65

Parima, Lake, 201

Paruima, 164

Pasture, lack of for animals, 60
Patamona tribe, 165

Patterson, Mr., 176
Peaima Fall, 155, 184

Peberdy, P. Storer, 196; A Report
of a Survey of Amerindians,
196

Peccary, 169-70
Pegasse soil, 192-3
People's Progressive Party, 26, 47;
criticism of, by Robertson
Commission, 47-8; exploita-
tion of evils by, 59; on tree-
planting by tenants on estates,
81; on the sugar industry, 97;
promises of material improve-
ments, 102; supporters of, in
Port Mourant, 108, 112;

split in, 131-3; Communist
element, 131; Annual Con-
gress, 131-2; Burnham's pro-
gramme for, 133-5; Jagan, and
outline of policy, 135–6; and
the Waddington Commission,
136-7; and the new Constitu-
tion, 137–8; refusal to work
Constitution, 138; attempts to
dictate policy without discus-
sion or debate, 139; appoint-
ments to Boards and Com-
mittees, 140; attempt to take
over control of schools, local
government bodies and Public
service, 140; aim to control
trade unions, 140; strike, 141;
threats against opponents,
142; youth of members, 205;
and land reform, 217
Pilgrim, Rev. E. S. M., 123
Pinckard, Dr. George, 39; Notes on
the West Indies and the Coast
of Guiana, 39-40
Plantation Owners: attitude to
slaves, 118

Poetry, modern Guianese, 126-9
Pomeroon River, 5, 33, 156
Population: rapid increase in, due

to conquest of malaria, 22, 45,
80, 83, 175; Indian, 45;
African, 45; effect of increase
on future employment, 83-4
Port Mourant, 90, 101, 112; Rock-
Diamond rum-parlour in, 101,
113; political vehemence in,
108
Portuguese: early settlers, 37;

eighteenth-century boundary
dispute with, 37; indentured
labour, 43; descendants of, 55;
economic development of, 55-
6; power of, in community, 56
Potaro River, 154, 156, 162, 183
Powis, the, 171

Printing, done by Guianese, 120
Prospectors, for diamonds and

gold, 151, 162-4; 'pork-
knockers', 184, 192, 202
Protection Ordinance, 1910, 196

Rice, contd.

culties of mechanization, 69;
favourable prices, 69 and n.;
steps to improve quality, 69n.;
value of as export, 69, 70;
labour conflict with sugar
interests, 93; poor quality of,
94; burning of during strike,
142
Rivers, 154, 157–8; necessity for re-
population of land around,

207
Roads, 5ff.; cost of proper sur-
facing for East Coast road, 7;
1954 report of British Guiana
government on, 7; in rainy
season, 68; in the Interior,
160; through forest conces-
sions, 186

Robertson, Sir James, 47
Commission, 20, 23, 26, 57;

Reports of, 53, 57, 67, 131,
132, 135, 138, 141, 205
Rodway, James: History of British
Guiana, 23, 223

Roe, Sir Thomas, 31, 32

Roman Catholic missions, 164, 195
Roman-Dutch Law, 41, 217-8
Roraima Mountain, 156

Rose Hall Plantation, 65, 110
Rosignol Plantation, 23, 65, 97
Roth, Vincent, xv, 13-14; Path-

finding on the Mazaruni,
1922-4, 223

Roth, Dr. Walter, 13, 196; his
books on the Guiana Indians,
223

220

R. H. Carr, the, 174, 178
Rhythms, African, 129
Rice: grown by early immi-

grant labourers, 44-5; Indian
workers in paddy fields, 63; on
empoldered areas, 68; as
second crop of colony, 68;
grown by peasants, 68; lack of
proper irrigation for, 68; diffi-

in the West Indies, 44;
Report, 1939, 79

Ruhomon, Peter, 223
Rum, production of, 75
Rupununi Development Com-

pany, 200
District, 164, 166
River, 153, 156

savannas, 37, 151, 153, 157, 160,
161, 162, 200-2

St. Clair, Thomas Staunton, 49; A
Soldier's Sojourn in British
Guiana, 222

St. Ignatius, Experimental Station
at, 164

Samlalsingh, Ruby, 123

San Thomé de Guiana, 31, 32, 33
Santa Rosa, Roman Catholic

mission, 195, 197
Sarracenia, 156-7

Savage, Sir Alfred, 11, 25–6, 142
Savannas, 152, 157, 200-2
Schomburgk, Richard, 14n., 222–3;

Travels in British Guiana,
1840-4, 168, 170, 223
Robert, 14n., 168, 169, 170, 222–3
Seggar, William, 164, 166
Self-government, 205-6. See also
Guianization

Self-help schemes, 65-7, 117; Gov-
ernment grants for, 65–6; diffi-
culties in, 66

Settlers, criticism of the colony by,
175-6, 180-1

Seventh Day Adventists, 165; mis-

sion school of, 164
Seymour, A. J., 28, 122-3, 126;
"There Runs a Dream', 128;
on 'The Creation of Quality
in the West Indies', 123
'Shakers', a, 105, 107
Shell Beach area, survey of, 194
Sing, Ram, 13

Singh, Sugrim, 145-6, 147
Skeldon Plantation, 116; improve-

ments on, 116-17

Slaves: eighteenth-century attitude
to, 36; treatment of by
planters, 38; revolts by, 39;
callousness of owners, 40;
celebrations of, 40; abolition
of trading in, 41; illegal buy-
ing of, 41; breeding of, 41;
legislation to ameliorate con-
ditions of, 41; insurrections of
1823, 42; illiteracy of, 118;
loss of folk arts of, 129
Smallholders, 68

Stabroek. See Georgetown
Stephens, John Lloyd, 24
Stockley, G. M., 194

44;

-2

Strike, among sugar workers, 141–
Sugar: difficulties of planters after
Act of Abolition, 42; use of
indentured labour, 43; dis-
solution of plantocracy, 44;
fall in price from the seventies
to end of nineteenth century,
recovery of in First
World War, 44; depression in
'twenties and early 'thirties,
44; British workers in, 56-7;
value of, as export, 70; pro-
duction, 74-5; high produc-
tion cost, 75; importance of, to
economic life, 85; Dr. Jagan's
attack on, 90-4; labour diffi-
culties, 92-3; financial posi-
tion of industry, 94-5; present
stability of, 95-6; Mr. Burn-
ham's attack on, 135
Act, 1846, 44

Industry Labour Welfare Fund,
79 and n.

plantations, 8, 63-5; eighteenth
century, Dutch, 34; routine
on, 70-8; manager's house,
70-1; field overseers, 71;
factory manager, 72; field
manager, 72; factory work,
74-5; field work, 76-8; hous-
ing schemes, 78, 110-11;
'ranges', 78; Government re-
sponsibility for rehousing, 79;
estate hospitals and schools,
82, 111; manager's day, 110
Price Stabilization Fund, 79n.

Takatu River, 157

Talkie-talkie. See Creolese

Tantalite, 159

Tapir, the, 168-9

Tarpon, the, 191, 192
Thompson, Earl, 65

Three Friends, the, 176-7
Thunder, 132, 135, 140

Thurn, Sir Everard im: Among
the Indians of Guiana, 33n.,
223

Timber, 168, 185-90, 193
Tinamu Cataract, 155
Tonka beans, 167

Torani Canal, building of, 108
Towakaima Falls, 195

Toynbee, Professor, on the back-
ward areas, 65
Trade figures, 220

Trade Unions: P.P.P. attempt to
control, 140

Trinidad, 3, 31, 136; steel bands
in, 61-2; calypsos of, 129
Trinidad: Lake: pitch-blende

from, 6

Leaseholds Ltd., 194

Panharmonic Orchestra, 62
Trollope, Anthony, 57
Trotz, Hendrik, 38

Tumatumari, 158, 183, 184-5
Tumereng, 159, 162

Union Carbide of U.S.A., 194
Upper Mazaruni District, 161
Uranium, 159

Vampire bat, 170

Van Pere, Abraham, 33