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Stranica 7
The twenty miles are lined with desperate little wooden shacks on stilts that seem about to subside , often huddled together as if it were a privilege to be on the road rather than open and free on the land behind .
The twenty miles are lined with desperate little wooden shacks on stilts that seem about to subside , often huddled together as if it were a privilege to be on the road rather than open and free on the land behind .
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chorus a shrill note more like birdsong than the brekekekex of untropical varieties , and crickets wheeze in the intervals , great sounds that seem to come from the throats of animals . Main Street is wide and divided by a central path ...
chorus a shrill note more like birdsong than the brekekekex of untropical varieties , and crickets wheeze in the intervals , great sounds that seem to come from the throats of animals . Main Street is wide and divided by a central path ...
Stranica 15
its huge leaves five or more feet in diameter like flat saucers , and its wax - like flowers , which only seem to be real when the white has become touched with pink . The finest architectural survival from Dutch times is the Stabroek ...
its huge leaves five or more feet in diameter like flat saucers , and its wax - like flowers , which only seem to be real when the white has become touched with pink . The finest architectural survival from Dutch times is the Stabroek ...
Stranica 20
Yet , if it is a question , for financial reasons , of choosing between housing and other vital and costly matters which are necessary to the economic development of the Colony it seems to me that housing is a luxury which is too much ...
Yet , if it is a question , for financial reasons , of choosing between housing and other vital and costly matters which are necessary to the economic development of the Colony it seems to me that housing is a luxury which is too much ...
Stranica 27
... amenities and labour relations on the plantations . Few words are wasted in conversations in British Guiana ; there is little gossip or frivolous talk , for such pleasant things seem strangely out of place in 27 OVER GUIANA , CLOUDS.
... amenities and labour relations on the plantations . Few words are wasted in conversations in British Guiana ; there is little gossip or frivolous talk , for such pleasant things seem strangely out of place in 27 OVER GUIANA , CLOUDS.
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African agricultural allowed Amerindians appear become believe Berbice British Guiana brought building built called canals cause cent coast Colony coloured Commission Company Constitution Demerara difficult District drainage Dutch East Indian economic elected English Essequibo estates fact factory fall Federation fields forest Georgetown give given Government Governor ground Guianese hand important increase Indian industry interests Interior labour land leaves less live look Mackenzie manager matter means ment miles move Negro never officer once Party plantations political population possible prepared problems produced Report result rice river road Rupununi schemes schools seems slaves Street sugar survey taken tion told town trees turned various village West workers
Bibliografski podaci
| Naslov | British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples Opseg 4 iz Corona library |
| Autor | Michael Swan |
| Izdanje | 2, ilustrirano |
| Izdavač | H.M. Stationery Office, 1957 |
| Izvornik iz | Kalifornijsko sveučilište |
| Digitalizirano | 10 pro 2019 |
| Duljina | Broj stranica: 235 |
| Izvezi navode | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |