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ences, not even a water supply, although it is 
ideally located for sewerage and aqueducts. 
Dutch money is in use, although Amer 
ican and English is accepted. Merchants 
maintain accounts in New York or Europe for 
their requirements. Credits are good. Eng 
lish is spoken by all business men. 
The Royal Dutch West Indies Mail direct 
from New York has two sailings a month for 
this colony. It is also accessible from Trini 
dad, Curasao, and Barbados. 
French Guiana has 49,000 square miles of 
territory, with a population of about 13,500, 
some 8,500 of which are convicts, as this is a 
penal settlement. Capt. Dreyfus was confined 
here on Devil’s Island. This is the least de 
veloped and less promising of these colonies. 
There is little agriculture and less cattle rais 
ing. Whatever trade there is is controlled by 
France. 
In 1912 the exports were: 
Gold $2,000,000 
Phosphate 55jOOO 
Balata 20,000