British Guiana: Demerara After Fifteen Years of FreedomT. Bosworth, 1853 - 117 páginas |
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acre advantages amount annual Appendix ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE Berbice Berbice river boiling British Guiana Cambridgeshire canals canes capital carried church civilization coast colonists colony Coolies cost cottages Court of Policy creeks Creole crop cultivation dams Demerara districts dollars drain drainage Dutch duties emancipated classes engine England entire erected Essequibo established feet fields Georgetown Government Governor HARVARD COLLEGE HENRY BARKLY immigrants improvement Indies industry inhabitants island juice labour land laws legislature liberated Africans Madeiran manager mandeur manufacturing ment miles month moral native negro object overseer owners parish plant plantations planter population position possess present produce proprietor quantity received residence RICKERBY river ship slavery slaves sluices society sugar estate Surinam tion tons of sugar Vicente Yanez Pinzon village wages weeds West India West India Colonies West India Company wet season
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Página 13 - Secula: sic toties versa est Fortuna locorum. Vidi ego, quod fuerat quondam solidissima tellus, Esse fretum. Vidi factas ex aequore terras; Et procul a pelago conchae jacue're marinae; Et vetus inventa est in montibus ancora summis. Quodque fuit campus, vallem decursus aquarum Fecit: et eluvie mons est deductus in aequor: Eque paludosa siccis humus aret arenis : Quaeque sitim tulerant, stagnata paludibus hument.
Página 62 - ... the unimproved condition in which it appears may be regarded as that perhaps in which violence and wrong have the widest field, and cause the most dreadful calamities to the human race. The original simplicity, founded on the absence of all objects calculated to excite turbulent desires and passions, has disappeared, while its place is not yet supplied by the restraints of law and the refinements of civilized society. War, the favourite pursuit, is therefore carried on with the most unrelenting...
Página 13 - The face of places, and their forms, decay ; And that is solid earth, that once was sea ; Seas, in their turn, retreating from the shore, Make solid land, what ocean was before...
Página 61 - The hope of an immortal destiny, dimly working in the blinded human heart, leads to the wildest errors. The despot, the object of boundless homage on earth, seeks to transport all his pomp, and the crowd of his attendants, to his place in the future world. His death must be celebrated by the corresponding sacrifice of a numerous band of slaves, of wives and of courtiers : their blood must water his grave ; and the sword of the rude warrior, once drawn, does not readily stop ; — a general massacre...
Página 20 - ... the age of six or eight months, after which time the spreading of numerous leaves from each stock will have covered the surface of the field with so dense a jungle, as in a great measure to prevent any further growth of weeds. When about nine months old the cane throws out its " arrow," a long reed- like stem, surmounted with a tuft of waving downy blossom.
Página 69 - African immigrant " shall mean any immigrant from any part of the African continent, or from the island of Madagascar, or from any other island adjacent to the coast of the African continent, and inhabited by the negro race.
Página 101 - ... millions have been sacrificed for the benefit of the few. The fundamental principle of the English had been to make the whole Indian nation subservient in every possible way to the interests and benefits of themselves." And he summarised thus: "The summary was that the British Indian Government had been practically one of the most extortionate and oppressive that ever existed in India. Some acknowledged this and observed that it was the unavoidable result of a foreign yoke.
Página 102 - With the progressive retrogression of the African race in this country the heathen superstitions of their ancestors seem to be gaining ground, and " Obeah" is practised to a much greater extent than is generally supposed. All the gentlemen connected with the landed interest whom your commissioners have examined concur in representing the idle and vicious mode of life pursued by the villagers, even in the most flourishing (comparatively speaking) parts of the colony. The depredations committed by...