GUINEA

[s. 298] : Name formerly applied to much of the western coast of Africa south of the Gambia River. It is now commonly applied to Portuguese Guinea lying adjacent to Sene gambia, and to French Guinea south of the former and north of Sierra Leone. Portuguese Guinea: A colony of Portugal, is on the coast, entirely surrounded on the land sides by French territory. It has an area of only 4,440 square miles, and a population of 820,000 (estimated). It includes the Bi agos Islands off The chief port is Bi ao, or Bi au. the coast. French Guinea: A colony of France on the western coast of Africa, detached from the colony of Senegal in 1890, and organized as a colony in It has an area of about 95,000 square 1893. miles, and an estimated population of 2,200,000. It extends from Portuguese Guinea on the north to Sierra Leone and Liberia on the south, and is bounded on the east by the French dependencies behind Senegal and the Ivory Coast. The coast is low and unhealthful. GUJARAT A region in Bombay, India. The name does not refer to any political division of the Bombay Presidency, but rather to the area: within which the Gujarati language is the ordinary vernacular of the Hindu inhabitants. This region is composed in part of districts belonging to the Bombay Presidency, and in part of the It territories of many different native states. lies along the shore of the Indian Ocean, at its northeastern angle, and between the coast and the Western Ghats, which stretch along about 30’ On the miles from the sea, north and south. south it reaches to latitude 20° north, some 70 miles north of Bombay; its most northern pointy where it touches Rajputana, is in latitude 24° S81 It includes the peninsula of Kathiawar, Kachchh, the native states of Baroda, Cambay, those of Mahi Kantha, Rewa Kantha, and PalanIt pur, and several other inferior chieftainships. 45’. also includes five districts of the Bombay Presidency, which contain together a population of The total area, including feudatory 3,000,000. states, is 70,038 square miles, and the total popuThe city of Surat is lati on about 10,000,000. one of the oldest mi ionary stations in India; mi ionaries by of the London it was occupied In 1846 the Mi ionary Society as early as 1815. mi ion was transferred to the Irish Presbyterians, who now have 10 stations in that disand the CA have latterly estabThe trict. lished stations in this region also. Jeffrey (Rev. R.), Fijty Years’ Work in Kathiawar and ME Gujarat, London. GUJARATI LANGUAGE Belongs to the Indie branch of the Aryan family of languages, and is spoken by some 9,000,000 people in the northern It is part of the province of Bombay, India. near of kin to the Hindi, and is written with the Devanagari letters, or with its own peculiar letters derived from Devanagari.: GUJRANWALA: A town in the Punjab, India, 40 miles north of Lahore, in a dead level plain which lacks natural drainage. Climate, cool, with frost in winter, extremely hot in summer. Population (1891), 26,800, of whom 14,000 are Mohammedans and 9,000 Hindus. It is the birthplace of Runjit Singh, the organizer of Sikh Station of the UP (1863), with nationality. (1903) 8 mi ionaries, men and women; 25 native workers, men and women; boarding schools, 1 21 day schools, 3 orphanage and industrial Staschool, and about 500 profe ed Christians. tion also of the PS, which, in 1902, voted to withdraw from the place, but the local presbytery has not agreed to this course. 299