GUANTANAMO

[s. 297] : A town in Cuba, W. I., situated 40 miles east of Santiago, in a very productive legion of sugar estates. Population, about 24,000. Station of the American Baptist Home Mi ionary Society (1899), with 1 mi ionary and his wife. GUARANI LANGUAGE Belongs to the South American family of languages, and is spoken by the native population (mixed blood) of Paraguay. It is written with Roman letters. GUATEMALA A republic of Central America, bounded on the north by Yucatan, east by British Honduras, the Bay of Honduras, and the republics of Honduras and San Salvador; south by the Pacific, and west by the Mexican State of Chiapas. Its greatest length, from northeast to southwest, is 325 miles, its greatest breadth about 300 miles; area, about 48,800 square miles. Climate, exce ively hot in tlie low, and cool in:: the high, regions, is generally healthful. The soil exceedingly fertile, but poorly cultivated. Population (1900) 1,647,300 about sixty per cent, Indians, very few descendants of are pure Europe ans, and the rest mestizos, a mixture of Spanish and Indian blood. The Indians live mostly by themselves, and the civil authorities immediately governing them are chosen from Indolence and licentiousne are tlaeir own race. Language, the besetting vices of all the people. Spanish; religion, Roman Catholic, but all other The government creeds have liberty of worship. the legislative power is vested in is republican; a congre , and the executive is a president, a isted by three ministers, elected for four years. The capital is Guatemala, by far the finest city in Central America, situated in a picturesque plateau in the southwest part of the republic. The mi ionary societies operating in Guatemala are the PN, with 2 stations, and the Central American Mi ion, with 1 station. The ABS also has an agency at Guatemala city. Brigham (T.), Guatemala, New York and London, 1887J Sapper (K.), Mit tel am erik an is che Reisen und Studien^ is,; Braunschweig, 1902 Mi ionary Review of the World, Vol. XIV., p. 168, New York, 1901.; 297