British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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... Africa . In 1949 they re - leased the land for ninety - nine years ; the Govern- ment now maintains the field as a civil airport by arrangement with the Americans . I drove from the airfield over a fine concrete road , but the pleasure ...
... Africa . In 1949 they re - leased the land for ninety - nine years ; the Govern- ment now maintains the field as a civil airport by arrangement with the Americans . I drove from the airfield over a fine concrete road , but the pleasure ...
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... African vil- lages . Again , it was only in the African areas that reeling figures Village houses on stilts approached us from the rum - parlours with smiling faces and Creolese loquacity which unfortunately I could not under- stand ...
... African vil- lages . Again , it was only in the African areas that reeling figures Village houses on stilts approached us from the rum - parlours with smiling faces and Creolese loquacity which unfortunately I could not under- stand ...
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The Land of Six Peoples Michael Swan. African in a spotless white shirt cried to his girl , ' Gal , me say wi'out fada pravacation me and you is for d ' pictures dis rainy night ' , and they walked over the muddied verge towards the ...
The Land of Six Peoples Michael Swan. African in a spotless white shirt cried to his girl , ' Gal , me say wi'out fada pravacation me and you is for d ' pictures dis rainy night ' , and they walked over the muddied verge towards the ...
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... African lan- guage amongst themselves and so were forced to learn a primi- tive English . New slaves learnt talkie - talkie from the old ones and missionaries read them the Bible , whose cadences they remembered . The arrival of the ...
... African lan- guage amongst themselves and so were forced to learn a primi- tive English . New slaves learnt talkie - talkie from the old ones and missionaries read them the Bible , whose cadences they remembered . The arrival of the ...
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... African descent rather than East Indian . although the East Indians form 45 per cent of the total population , and Africans 36 per cent . The streets and offices of Georgetown would make one suppose that the Colony was African with a ...
... African descent rather than East Indian . although the East Indians form 45 per cent of the total population , and Africans 36 per cent . The streets and offices of Georgetown would make one suppose that the Colony was African with a ...
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