FEENCH GUIANA. 



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station of Pedro II. serves as a support to the gradual occupation of the whole 

 territory. Even the Apurima district, with its extensive savannas and live-stock 

 farms, which stretch northwards beyond the Araguuri about the Lago Novo, has 

 become a simple administrative dependency of Macapa. 



The Brazilians have encroached farther still in the direction of the Mapa river, 

 where they have founded the colony of Ferreira Gomes. On the other hand, the 



Fig. 24. — Political Divisions of Guiana. 

 Scale 1 : 130,000,000. 



Between France 

 and Brazil. 



Disputed Territoiks. 



Between Eng-Iand 

 and Venezuela. 



Between Kughnd 

 and Brazil. 



250 Miles. 



half-submerged lands traversed by the Ouassa and the Cuchipour on the French 

 Guiana frontier are amongst the least inhabited districts of the contested territory. 

 Nevertheless, the trade of Counani and of Mapa tends to gravitate far more 

 towards Cayenne than towards Para. This is due to the greater proximity of the 

 French capital, as well as to its more accessible harbour. In the direction of 



