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Crown Encyclopedia and gazetteer, 1903
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1mouth of the harbor, but the Spanish batteries and a gunboat in the bay opened up such a severe fire that the "Wampatuck" was forced to withdraw, after grappling a cable about 800 yards from the shore. On June 10, the United States cruiser "Marblehead" shelled the hills on the right of the bay where the enemy had erected earthworks, and the next day the transport "Panther" landed 600 marines at Caimanera. In July, 1901, Guantanamo Bay was selected by the United States government as the site of one of four projected naval stations on the Cuban coast.
3Guapore, a river of South America, rises in Brazil, and for some distance forms the boundary between Bolivia and Brazil. It unites with the Mamore to form the Madeira.
5Guard, a term applied to a military troop especially attached to the person of a sovereign, or chief ruler of a state. Bodyguards have been an inseparable accompaniment of monarchy from the earliest ages.
7Guardafui, Cape, the extreme E. point of the African continent, and the extremity of an immense promontory.
9Guard Boat, a boat employed to row round and about ships of war in a harbor to see that a proper lookout is kept.
11Guard Ship, a vessel of war stationed in a port or harbor to act as a guard, to see that the harbor regulations are observed, and to receive seamen until they can be draughted off to their respective ships. In the latter sense it is known in the United States as a receiving ship.
13Guardian Angel, a common belief but not an article of faith in the Latin and Greek Churches that to every individual of the human race there is assigned at birth an angel as guardian and protector. The belief is shared by Anglican High Churchmen. The Roman Church celebrates the Feast of Guardian Angels on October 2.
15Guarea, a genus of tropical American trees, of some of which the bark is used as an emetic and purgative. G. grandifolia is called musk wood in some of the islands of the West Indies, the bark smelling so strongly of musk that it may be used as a perfume.
17Guarneri, or Guarnieri, the name of one of the three celebrated families of violin-makers who flourished at Cremona in the 17th and 18th centuries.
19Guatemala, a republic of Central America, bounded by Mexico, Belize, Honduras, San Salvador, Gulf of Honduras, and the Pacific Ocean; area, 63,400 square miles; pop. (1900) 1,574,340; number of departments, 22; and capital, Guatemala la Neuva.
21The country is exceedingly mountainous and elevated. Along the main chain are a number of volcanoes, among which are Fuego, over 12,000 feet high, and Tajumulco, 14,403 feet high. In October and November, 1902, an extensive region in Guatemala was devastated and many lives destroyed by volcanic eruptions.
23On the tableland, of which a considerable portion of the state is formed, the climate is mild; but in more elevated situations the cold is intense. There is much valuable timber. The soil generally is of great fertility, producing, according to altitude, soil, etc., maize, wheat, rice, coffee, cotton, tobacco, sugar, cochineal, cacao, indigo, vegetables, and tropical fruits in great variety. The mineral resources are not much developed, but there are found gold, silver, lead, coal, talc, marble, pumice, and sulphur.
25The foreign trade is carried on mostly with the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and France.
27The executive power is vested in a president elected for a term of sixteen years, and ineligible for reëlection for the following term. The administration is carried on, under the president, by the heads of six departments, Foreign Affairs, Government and Justice, Hacienda and Public Credit, Public Instruction, Fomento, and War. The legislative authority is vested in a National Assembly consisting of one representative for every 20,000 inhabitants, chosen by universal suffrage for four years. The State recognizes no religious creed, all creeds having complete liberty of worship, the Roman Catholics predominating. Education is free and compulsory.
29Ancient Guatemala was occupied by a race of Indians who had reached a
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