British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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... rice - farmer at harvest time ( b ) Dredging for gold in the Potaro River ( c ) Mr. R. Tachon , Reduction Officer to British Consolidated Goldfields , Ltd. IV ( a ) Herd of cattle in the open ranges of the Rupununi Savannas ( b ) ...
... rice - farmer at harvest time ( b ) Dredging for gold in the Potaro River ( c ) Mr. R. Tachon , Reduction Officer to British Consolidated Goldfields , Ltd. IV ( a ) Herd of cattle in the open ranges of the Rupununi Savannas ( b ) ...
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... rice , and huts spread along the banks . The jungle fringes on the east side soon gave on to what appeared to be luscious savanna , but no cattle were there , no huts , no sign of habitation . There was something unhealthy about the ...
... rice , and huts spread along the banks . The jungle fringes on the east side soon gave on to what appeared to be luscious savanna , but no cattle were there , no huts , no sign of habitation . There was something unhealthy about the ...
Stranica 44
... rice . It was their staple food and they grew it on land not used by the sugar plantations — often badly drained land on which they might take a chance that the crop would succeed . As the rice - lands extended so the labourers found ...
... rice . It was their staple food and they grew it on land not used by the sugar plantations — often badly drained land on which they might take a chance that the crop would succeed . As the rice - lands extended so the labourers found ...
Stranica 45
... rice was causing a dislocation to their labour . This is still one of the great problems of the sugar interests in the Colony . In 1917 , as the result of public opinion in India , the Govern- ment of India abolished the indenture ...
... rice was causing a dislocation to their labour . This is still one of the great problems of the sugar interests in the Colony . In 1917 , as the result of public opinion in India , the Govern- ment of India abolished the indenture ...
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... rice season they graze in the badly drained ' backlands ' behind the plantations , where they spend the months knee - high in swamp , nibbling the unnutritious grasses that are above the water . After the rice harvest they graze on the ...
... rice season they graze in the badly drained ' backlands ' behind the plantations , where they spend the months knee - high in swamp , nibbling the unnutritious grasses that are above the water . After the rice harvest they graze on the ...
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