British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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Stranica 14
... canals in the manner of their home - country . Then , as now , the land was over four feet below sea - level at high tide , and the canals were essential for drainage and water control . Four years after the town was planned it was ...
... canals in the manner of their home - country . Then , as now , the land was over four feet below sea - level at high tide , and the canals were essential for drainage and water control . Four years after the town was planned it was ...
Stranica 61
... canals run along each side of the road and constantly one sees Indian women and their children fishing with seine - nets or picking the muddy bottom of the canals for the shrimps which are a delicacy of the daily curry . Sometimes two ...
... canals run along each side of the road and constantly one sees Indian women and their children fishing with seine - nets or picking the muddy bottom of the canals for the shrimps which are a delicacy of the daily curry . Sometimes two ...
Stranica 75
... canals . All the larger plan- tations have some 250 miles of irrigation and transport canals and about eighty miles of drainage trenches — so that a large percentage of estate land cannot be used agriculturally . The cost of maintaining ...
... canals . All the larger plan- tations have some 250 miles of irrigation and transport canals and about eighty miles of drainage trenches — so that a large percentage of estate land cannot be used agriculturally . The cost of maintaining ...
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Over Guiana Clouds | 3 |
A Chapter of History | 29 |
The People | 49 |
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