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Title: The coolie, his rights and wrongs
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Jenkins, Edward, 1838-1910
Subjects: Chinese -- Guyana Working class -- Guyana Labor movement -- Guyana Labor -- Guyana
Publisher: New York : George Routledge and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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freshness has early morning in De-merara: the fiery globe sends its horizontal beamsalong the landscape, striking- madly on your face and knocking you silly, as my ingenious friend theADC. had expressed it on board the Arno. Windsor Forest was over the river, and some threeor four miles down the coast. On reaching the stel-ling we found that the asthmatic steamer which wasto have ferried over ourselves and our trap had beenobliged to knock off for a few hours, and her sub-stitute—a still more invalid creature—was not yetready, so we whiled away the time by ascending thelighthouse, an operation which was like climbing upa mammoth red-hot corkscrew in a chimney flue. Inever did it again. But here we are at the top,looking far away over the fiat country, and thisaffords me an opportunity of describing the generalface of the field on which the Coolie works. If thereader will look at the map, he will see that from thefar north-west on the Arabian (more properly Aroe- WINDSOR FOREST. 33
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D 34 THE COOLIE. bisce) coast to the extreme south-east, on the riverCorentyn, the shores and river-banks are fringed withestates laid out in lines narrow and long. From endto end you would be hard bestead to find a hillock,and on the east and west coast, which I could seefrom the lighthouse, the ocean was walled out bydams. These, called the front dams, constitute thehigh-roads to the estates. They lie between the cul-tivation and the sea, and the burthen of maintainingthem in good order, as public highways, lies uponthe adjacent estates. The carking sea is constantly

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