British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples |
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The night air of Georgetown is cool and moves with the unceasing north - east trade winds which temper the humidity and keep the coastlands at a mean temperature of 82 degrees . To walk in the streets at night is to feel intensely the ...
The night air of Georgetown is cool and moves with the unceasing north - east trade winds which temper the humidity and keep the coastlands at a mean temperature of 82 degrees . To walk in the streets at night is to feel intensely the ...
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The constant difficulty is to ensure a high standard of work by means of trained supervision , and to induce highly trained engineers to come to the Colony — and to remain for more than one or two years once they have come .
The constant difficulty is to ensure a high standard of work by means of trained supervision , and to induce highly trained engineers to come to the Colony — and to remain for more than one or two years once they have come .
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This does not mean that I am attempting to excuse the existence of these slums and would deny those who live in them the benefits of new houses under a welfare system . But I do believe that if the economic development of the country ...
This does not mean that I am attempting to excuse the existence of these slums and would deny those who live in them the benefits of new houses under a welfare system . But I do believe that if the economic development of the country ...
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My conscience is clear before Almighty God ' , he wrote , ' not only that I am entirely innocent of what is so dishonourably laid to my charge by such men , that I have used all the means in my power in the interest of the Honourable ...
My conscience is clear before Almighty God ' , he wrote , ' not only that I am entirely innocent of what is so dishonourably laid to my charge by such men , that I have used all the means in my power in the interest of the Honourable ...
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Although this does not mean that a lower standard of administrator is sent out there it does mean that to go to British Guiana is in some ways rather like being ' sent to Bogotá ' for members of the Foreign Service .
Although this does not mean that a lower standard of administrator is sent out there it does mean that to go to British Guiana is in some ways rather like being ' sent to Bogotá ' for members of the Foreign Service .
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Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze
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 feet fields forest Georgetown give given Government Governor ground Guianese hand important increase Indian industry interests Interior labour land leaves less live look 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 whole 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 |