ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

I Kaieteur Fall (coloured)

II (a) A Georgetown beggar

(b) The centre of Georgetown

facing title page

III (a) View of waterside and Demerara River

between pages 24 and 25

(b) The roofs and back gardens of old Georgetown

IV (a) Water Street, Georgetown

VI (a) Agricola Village Co-operative Thrift and Credit

Society, Ltd.

(b) Drawbridge at Diamond Village

VII (a) Excavating the Berbice-Canje Irrigation Canal

(b) River defences for the Bartica Drainage and

Irrigation Scheme

(c) Part of the Torani Canal

VIII (a) Street market, Rose Hall, Courantyne

(b) Cricket practice at No. 11 Village, Courantyne

IX (a) Burning 'trash' in sugar fields

before cutting

(b) A field inspection during cutting

between pages 72 and 73

X (a) East Indian cane-cutter at Plantation Uitvlugt

(b) East Indian water-carrier

(c) Cane being fed into the crushing mill

(d) The carrier feeding cane into crushing rollers

XI (a) Taking cane to the factory in punts

(b) Loading the punts by crane

(c) Boiling the sugar in vacuum pans

(d) Sugar flows into bags ready for shipping

XVI (a) Sir Alfred Savage addressing the

Legislative Council when Governor

(b) The Legislative Council in Session

(c) Dr. Cheddi Jagan

(d) Mrs. Cheddi Jagan

(e) Mr. L. F. S. Burnham

XVII (a) James Street, Albouystown

(b) Yard off Hogg Street, Albouystown XVIII (a) Family group outside flat on the Laing

Avenue Estate

between pages 136 and 137

(b) New houses on the Laing Avenue Estate XIX (a) Amerindian children at Sand Creek School, Rupununi

(b) Schools broadcasting in Broad Street Government

School, Georgetown

(c) Student at Government Technical Institute,
Georgetown

XX (a) Queen's College for Boys, Georgetown

(b) Education film being shown at mobile cinema XXI (a) Spraying an Amerindian house with D.D.T. (b) Serving Amerindian children with milk at

Sand Creek

(c) Mr. Roy Phang, a Chinese dental student from
British Guiana

XXII (a) Dr. C. R. Jones giving anti-tuberculosis injection
at Sand Creek

(b) Medical Ranger Nash Atkinson making his rounds in the Rupununi

XXIII (a) St. Francis Roman Catholic Mission Church,

Sand Creek

(b) Lutheran Church, Rose Hall, Courantyne

(c) St. George's Anglican Cathedral, Georgetown

(d) Mosque at No. 78 Village, Courantyne

XXIV (a) Akawaio Indian with blow-pipe

(b) Makushi girl at Sand Creek,

Rupununi

(c) The author on the Kamarang River in

Akawaio country

XXV (a) The East Coast Road

between pages 184 and 185

(b) Bed of the Rupununi River during dry season
(c) Lead boat pulls smaller boats on the Essequibo

River

XXVI (a) Grumman amphibian on the Potaro River
(b) Amerindian family crossing the Rupununi

XXVII (a) Amerindian woman winds wild cotton
(b) Wapisiana woman on bullock
(c) Village of Sand Creek

XXVIII (a) Gold workings at Tumatumari Fall

(b) Work on hydro-electric dam at Tumatumari

Fall

(c) The Potaro River from the air XXIX (a) Bauxite mining near Mackenzie

(b) Removing overburden before mining begins
(c) Main conveyor belt carrying washed bauxite to

kilns

XXX (a) The Mackenzie City School, maintained by DEMBA

(b) Bauxite ore waiting to enter plant at Mackenzie XXXI (a) Mrs. Orella's ranch, Manari, in the Rupununi (b) The River Takatu at Lethem, Rupununi