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Mounds of earth lay smoking at the roadside and labourers were filling up the large and frequent pot - holes . Today , I was told , the surface was particularly bad because there had been rain and the burnt earth had been washed away .
Mounds of earth lay smoking at the roadside and labourers were filling up the large and frequent pot - holes . Today , I was told , the surface was particularly bad because there had been rain and the burnt earth had been washed away .
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I told him I had met the Governor once , and he went on , ' Sa ' , we has d ' sweet and we has d ' bitter in dis world , and dis day d ' bitta he come , fo ' me mind gi'e me to come to town wid news me village fo ' d ' lord Savage ...
I told him I had met the Governor once , and he went on , ' Sa ' , we has d ' sweet and we has d ' bitter in dis world , and dis day d ' bitta he come , fo ' me mind gi'e me to come to town wid news me village fo ' d ' lord Savage ...
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I am told that the buildings have become drab by neglect since their erection and when new were perfectly reasonable in appearance . where wood is the one thing which is in abundance 18 BRITISH GUIANA.
I am told that the buildings have become drab by neglect since their erection and when new were perfectly reasonable in appearance . where wood is the one thing which is in abundance 18 BRITISH GUIANA.
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where wood is the one thing which is in abundance he told me that the enormous increase in the consumption of wood has meant that the Government Housing Department can only accept 23 per cent of the timber offered them ; the rest is too ...
where wood is the one thing which is in abundance he told me that the enormous increase in the consumption of wood has meant that the Government Housing Department can only accept 23 per cent of the timber offered them ; the rest is too ...
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It is the first school of the Colony and the social advantage of having been educated there is great , though many of its former pupils have told me that the failing of the school is that it is , or was , biased almost exclusively ...
It is the first school of the Colony and the social advantage of having been educated there is great , though many of its former pupils have told me that the failing of the school is that it is , or was , biased almost exclusively ...
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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