British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples |
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It was like a small town , dominated by the factory ; the road was full of people , walking or on bicycles , all more smartly dressed than the bedraggled peasants of the outlying districts . The car slowed down to negotiate a pot - hole ...
It was like a small town , dominated by the factory ; the road was full of people , walking or on bicycles , all more smartly dressed than the bedraggled peasants of the outlying districts . The car slowed down to negotiate a pot - hole ...
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And so across the whitewashed town to my hotel on Main Street . Here it was another world . The residents of the hotel sat quietly on the great verandah , some drinking together at little tables , others crumpling their white suits as ...
And so across the whitewashed town to my hotel on Main Street . Here it was another world . The residents of the hotel sat quietly on the great verandah , some drinking together at little tables , others crumpling their white suits as ...
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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 have heard its cry even in the deepest Interior - but here it was long - drawn and dove - like , more haunting than the saucy cries of the town - bred birds . Less obtrusive is the little housewren or ' God - bird ' as the local ...
I have heard its cry even in the deepest Interior - but here it was long - drawn and dove - like , more haunting than the saucy cries of the town - bred birds . Less obtrusive is the little housewren or ' God - bird ' as the local ...
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town . To the left the Cathedral stands in its grass - covered square , a building which I admired at first sight and came to love . It is the third cathedral to be built on the site and was completed in 1892 to designs by the late Sir ...
town . To the left the Cathedral stands in its grass - covered square , a building which I admired at first sight and came to love . It is the third cathedral to be built on the site and was completed in 1892 to designs by the late Sir ...
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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 |