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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 still no more than two rows of houses , each a mile ...
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 still no more than two rows of houses , each a mile ...
Stranica 61
Narrow drainage 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 .
Narrow drainage 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 .
Stranica 75
All the larger plantations have some 250 miles of irrigation and transport canals and about eighty miles of ... of maintaining these canals is high ; now and then we would see stretches of canal whose surfaces were covered with a ...
All the larger plantations have some 250 miles of irrigation and transport canals and about eighty miles of ... of maintaining these canals is high ; now and then we would see stretches of canal whose surfaces were covered with a ...
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Over Guiana Clouds | 3 |
Workers on a red brick road | 6 |
Blue and yellow macaw Bluecrowned parrot | 17 |
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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 Indians 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 natural Negroes never officer once Party plantations political population possible prepared problems produced Report result rice river road Rupununi schemes schools seems slaves sugar survey taken tion told town trees turned various village West whole workers
Bibliografski podaci
| Naslov | British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples Corona library |
| Autor | Michael Swan |
| Izdavač | H.M. Stationery Office, 1957 |
| Izvornik iz | Sveučilište Texas |
| Digitalizirano | 30 svi 2008 |
| Duljina | Broj stranica: 235 |
| Izvezi navode | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |