Download or read book Guiana British Dutch and French Classic Reprint written by James Rodway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guiana British, Dutch, and French The difierent tribes - Their houses - Canoee - Cassava, the stae of life -pepper-pot - cultivation-woman's work and man's work - The hunter and fisherman Weapons - Cotton hammocks - Mosaic feather-work Geometrical patterns on baskets and aprons - Laps Dancing dresses - Piaimen Esoteric cults Word building Polygamy in the chiefs - Its advantages Curare - Medicines - Independent nature of the Indian -blood-feuds - Hospitality - The Akawois, the gypsies of Guiana - Thrift unknown - Famine - Piwarrie f casts - Drunken orgies-native modesty - Danger of cloth ing - Use of the Indian to the traveller - Decreasing in number near the settlements - Christian missions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Guian written by James Rodway and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Guiana written by James Rodway and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work on the history and geography of Guiana is a comprehensive guide to the region. It includes detailed analyses of the British, Dutch, and French colonial enterprises in the region, as well as accounts of the indigenous populations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book British Guiana Classic Reprint written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Guiana British guiana, although the largest of our West India Colonies, is yet, perhaps, the least known of any; even in parliament and in some of the public papers it is occasionally called an island, whereas it forms a part, and in fact the only part, of the entire Continent of South America which belongs to Grea Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Guiana British Dutch and French written by James Rodway and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X THE PEOPLE AND IMMIGRATION Races represented--National traits in negro -- Bush negroes-- Coloured people--Negro characteristics--The East Indian, the man of the future--The Chinese--Madeira Portuguese--Native Indians--Wild Indians disappearing -- Javanese -- Cayenne rogues--Whites--Jews--Effect of a hot climate--Tropical man -- Labour difficulties -- Slavery -- Acclimatisation -- Tropical colonies entirely dependent on labour supply--Land worthless without labour--Immigration experiments--First East Indian coolies--Opposition of anti-slavery party--East Indian immigration established--Chinese coolies--Slave emancipation in Surinam--India the only source of a tropical labour supply-- "New slavery"--Disputes with the East Indians only connected with wages--Immigration department--Results of immigration. The people of Guiana are probably more varied than those of any other country in the world. Every race is represented--the European and IndoEuropean, the African negro, the Chinese, as well as people from Anam and Java, and finally, the true American. Besides these there are mixed breeds in all proportions--white with black, negro with East Indian and Chinese, negro with American, and white with East Indian, Chinese, and American. To the ethnologist these must necessarily be peculiarly interesting. Among the other points of interest there is the 186 impress of the three nationalities upon the negro, which are very conspicuous in the women. The French negress is unlike her sister in Surinam, and she also differs from the English type in Demerara. Again, they all stand apart from the real African and the bush negro, illustrating the possibility of the perpetuation of acquired characters and the manner in which tribal differences...
Download or read book The West Indies Enslaved and Free Classic Reprint written by William Moister and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The West Indies, Enslaved and Free It is very pleasant for the genuine Christian philanthropist to notice the attention which has been paid of late years to the temporal and spiritual welfare of the once despised, enslaved, and downtrodden African race, both in their own home on the 'Dark Continent' and in the lands of their exile. Having spent nearly fourteen years in the West Indies, at the most interesting and critical period of their history, whilst the poor negroes were still drinking the bitter cup of bondage, during the transition period called 'the apprenticeship, ' and for some time after the advent of entire freedom; and having kept a journal and made observations on passing events in the respective colonies in which he sojourned, the author has been induced to prepare for the press the present volume, descriptive of the country and the people and of the efforts which have been made to promote their improvement. This he has done, not merely to furnish interesting reading for those who delight in the study of history and in books of travels in foreign lands, but also to provide a useful handbook of information and reference for missionaries, merchants, travellers, and others, as well as with a view to excite a still deeper interest in the moral and social well being of a race of people to whom we are deeply indebted as a nation for the wrongs they have suffered at our hands in times past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of British Guiana Vol 1 written by James Rodway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of British Guiana, Vol. 1: From the Year 1668 to the Present; 1668 1781 Vicissitudes of the Colonies - First Trading Posts of Guiana - Brief account of progress before 1668 - The Dutch political system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Records of British Guiana Classic Reprint written by Nicholas Darnell Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Records of British Guiana On the loth of January 1779, 50 guilders were voted to the Marshal, boin, for distributing Publications in Essequibo (p. The Administration of the colonies was reformed by Deputies of the States General, 26th May 1789, (lo. F. No.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book British Guiana Its Agriculture and Trade Classic Reprint written by Agnes Gomez Sanderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Guiana: Its Agriculture and Trade British Guiana has had internal self-government since August 1961 and is looking forward to complete independence. This country-the only English speaking area on the South American continent-was originally settled by the Dutch. It was occupied by other countries, and finally ceded to Great Britain in 1814. The early influence of the Dutch 18 still reflected in its place names and in the dike system along the coast, which made agriculture possible in these low lands. The name Guiana is Indian, meaning land of waters and this character izes the three Guianas, British, French, and Netherlands (surinam). The waters require systems of control to make the land available for agriculture. Dikes keep out the sea, and drainage and irrigation canals, where constructed, keep swamps from flooding during the rainy season, and supply water for irrigation during the dry season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trinidad and British Guiana Classic Reprint written by Presbyterian Church In Canada and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trinidad and British Guiana Excellent roads wind amongst the hills and valleys, and the Indians are distributed in colonies upon the plantations, according to the convenience of labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Dutch Guiana Classic Reprint written by W. G. Palgrave and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dutch Guiana Subject; they are grounded on experience, and ratified by fact; The Biblical paradise, judging by the records. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Twenty Five Years in British Guiana Classic Reprint written by Henry Kirke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Five Years in British Guiana How much do we not owe to the many diaries and reminiscences written by Englishmen and Frenchmen during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? So, despite Mrs. Oliphant's strictures, and disregarding the fact that some indolent reviewers, if they condescend to notice this book, may put me down as a garrulous and vain old man, I shall proceed to write down my Recollections of British Guiana as it was during my connection with the colony from 1872 to 1897, in the hope that my readers, gentle or otherwise, may find something therein both to amuse and instruct them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Dutch in Western Guiana Classic Reprint written by George Edmundson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dutch in Western Guiana He himself tells us in his preface that he had always been a great lover of geography and history, and that from an early age he had purposed to write a large description of all America, also that he had personally been upon no less than one hundred and twenty-six islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and had travelled over (among other places) a great part of Guiana. His method of acquiring information about his subject is best given in his own words. I made it my business to purchase or borrow all the history and journalls that I could heare of whether Lattin, Itallian Spanish or Portugais French Dutch or in our Language, wherein I may say I have by reason of a generall generous conversation had luck extraordinary, and herein wt paines I have taken what cost I have been att is so notorious, that over and above the knowledge of a great number of gentlemen which I have been obliged too for a communication of printed books, mannuscripts, pattents commissions, and papers relating to those parts, the many booksellers of England and Holland will doe me right to testifie my continuall inquisition. As to his sources of knowledge for all that concerns Guiana in particular, our author speaks very fully. He tells us 'the two greatest travailers that ever were in Guiana of Christians' were both prisoners in his hands on his voyage to Guiana in 1665. The one was Matteson born at Gaunt, that had managed a trade 22 years for the Spaniards from ye Citty of St. Thome in Oronoque. The other was one Hendricson a Switz by nation, that had served some Dutch merchants in those parts 27 yeares in quallity of a factor with the upland Indians of Guiana. From these men, in that spirit of inquisition of which he tells us above, he appears to have gathered all the information he could, and compared it with the results of his own investigations as traveller and student, or, to use his own words, 'haveing besides my owne observacions, taken measures from the above mentioned Mr. Hendrickson and Matteson, and journalls, I fortuned to meet with.' To this may be added his statement that 'in this Colonie (Essequibo) the author had the good fortune to meet with some ingenious observations of the former governor (Groenewegen) of what had been transacted in Guiana in his time.' It is clear then in the narrative given by Scott of the early history of the Dutch colonies in Western Guiana that we are dealing with the narrative of a contemporary, familiar with the localities about which he was writing, conversant with all the literature upon the subject, including documents and journa's in manuscript, and having exceptional opportunities for personal commune with men intimately acquainted for a long period with the country and its history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book British Guiana and Its Resources Classic Reprint written by Robert Tennant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Guiana and Its Resources British Guiana, more generally known as Demerara, is a country unknown to most Englishmen, and is often classed as one of the West Indian Islands; it in fact forms the north-east shoulder of South America, and is the only English possession on that vast continent. It lies from three to eight degrees north of the Equator, and has, therefore, a tropical climate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Hand Book of British Guiana Classic Reprint written by James Rodway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hand-Book of British Guiana The soil of the coast consists of a mixture of clay and mud of considerable depth and almost unequalled richness. Alterna tion of the crops is unknown, sugar-canes growing year after year in the same soil with hardly any deterioration. To increase the production, however, most of the plantations use chemical ma nures, and especially lime, which latter is almost wanting nat urally. With such a soil and heavy rainfall, it follows that crops are also heavy, while almost every tropical production can be grown to perfection. Nothing can exceed the luxuriance of the vegetation, weeds of course coming to the front and chok ing the cultivated plants if not kept under control. Plantains, Indian corn, yams, sweet potatoes, and a host of fruits ripen all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Exhibits of British Guiana written by J. J. Quelch and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Exhibits of British Guiana: With Notes This publication is intended to be merely a hand-list of the exhibits of British Guiana, in the various parts of the Exhibition, classed according to the official system. By the preparation and publication, under its own superintendence, of a special illustrated Handbook of British Guiana (Georgetown, British Guiana), giving detailed information as to the general description, settlements, inhabitants, communication, climate, and meteorology, forest products, geology, gold industry, fauna, flora, history, and resources and capabilities of the Colony, the Exposition Committee has obviated the necessity of incorporating here anything of that character, and the reader is referred to that work for all such information. The few notes here given are simply explanatory of the exhibits. A large proportion of these exhibits is official, contributed by the Exposition Committee of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, intrusted by the Government with the carrying out in British Guiana of the arrangements for the Exposition. Other exhibits, made by private exhibitors, are so denoted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sanatana Dharma and Plantation Hinduism Second Edition Volume 2 written by Ramesh Gampat and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Missionaries worked hard to convert immigrants. Their first order of business was to denigrate Hinduism, designate Hindus as heathen, and disparage their culture, food and even attire. Immigrants stubbornly resisted, led by the tiny educated elite, including Brhmaas whom we call Brahmins. Conversion was a failure at least up to the end of the 19th century but picked up a self-generating momentum thereafter. The result is that the share of Hindus in Guyana’s Indian population declined from 83.5 percent in 1880 to 62.8 percent in 2012. The largest portion of the contraction was lost to Christianity. The loss notwithstanding, even a casual observer would conclude that Guyanese Hindus, at home and in the Diaspora, are a very religious people. Many of us do a jhandi or havan once annually; others do the more elaborate and costlier yajña, where everyone is welcome, once or twice in their lifetime. Most of us do a short daily puja – prayers, offerings, reading the stras and listening to bhajan – in our homes. An important, but perhaps unintended, way immigrants countered conversion to Christianity was an unplanned movement towards a “synthesis” that brought Hindus, regardless of caste or sect, under a “unitary form of Hinduism.” The “synthesis” began around the 1870s and was completed by the 1930s to the 1950s. Guyanese Hindus call the unified corpus of religious beliefs and practices that emerged from the “synthesis” Sanatana Dharma. Ramesh Gampat labels it Plantation Hinduism in this path-breaking book. The book argues that the brand of Hinduism practiced is inconsistent with Sanatana Dharma, called Vednta by the more philosophically inclined. Plantation Hinduism features an extraordinary dependence upon purohits (pandits), which has anaesthetized the Hindu mind and render him unable to think, question and inquire when it comes to Dharma. Rituals and bhakti have been degraded and turned into desire-motivated worship; devats have been misconstrued as Brahman rather than as limited manifestation of the one non-dual pure Consciousness; belief in the multiplicity of gods encourages image worship; and superstitions anchor Guyanese Hindus to tradition and mere belief. Plantation Hinduism is little more than desire-motivated actions, dogmas and superstitions. Absent is the idea that Sanatana Dharma is a spiritual science no less scientific than hard sciences, such as physics and astronomy. The central message of Vednta is the innate divinity of every person and the freedom to realize that divinity through anubhava, direct personal experience of Supreme Reality.
