British Guiana: The Land of Six PeoplesH.M. Stationery Office, 1957 - Broj stranica: 235 |
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Stranica 34
... drainage and irrigation canals may perhaps have appealed to the sentiment of the Dutch , who could turn the wastes of the estuary into a landscape reminiscent of their home - country . The migration had a great effect on the economic ...
... drainage and irrigation canals may perhaps have appealed to the sentiment of the Dutch , who could turn the wastes of the estuary into a landscape reminiscent of their home - country . The migration had a great effect on the economic ...
Stranica 44
... often badly drained land on which they might take a chance that the crop would succeed . As the rice - lands extended so the labourers found they needed more attention , and the plantations found that rice 44 BRITISH GUIANA.
... often badly drained land on which they might take a chance that the crop would succeed . As the rice - lands extended so the labourers found they needed more attention , and the plantations found that rice 44 BRITISH GUIANA.
Stranica 60
... drained ' backlands ' behind the plantations , where they spend the months knee - high in swamp , nibbling the unnutritious grasses that are above the water . After the rice harvest they graze on the front - lands gorging carbo ...
... drained ' backlands ' behind the plantations , where they spend the months knee - high in swamp , nibbling the unnutritious grasses that are above the water . After the rice harvest they graze on the front - lands gorging carbo ...
Stranica 61
... 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 ...
... 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 62
... drainage or fertilizers . Never- theless there is an Indian plantation owner who has been able to build himself a fine house in style midway between a Riviera villa and the Taj Mahal , superbly set among the palms . During the dry ...
... drainage or fertilizers . Never- theless there is an Indian plantation owner who has been able to build himself a fine house in style midway between a Riviera villa and the Taj Mahal , superbly set among the palms . During the dry ...
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