Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — Guiana. [ARTICLE]

Guiana.

Guiana is the name applied to all that country in South America bounded fey the Atlantic ocean, the Amazon river and its branches, and the Orinoco river and its branches. The western districts belong to Venezuela, , the southern and eastern districts to Brazil. The three European colonies, the British, Dutch and French Gulanas, extend from the seacoast to the frontiers of those republics. Settlements were made in Guian in the sixteenth century by explorers from England, France and’, the Netherlands, though later there were troubles between the three countries and the coloi nies changed hands seVaral times. ;■?