Isles of spice and palm . A Coolie Woman. The Canals are a Feature of Demerara TIP END OF THE CONTINENT tion of their time and labor to keeping the seaout of their possessions. True to this custom,Georgetown is low and flat and is several feetbelow sea level—or rather river level, for thetown fronts on the great Demerara River,nearly twenty miles from the ocean. Viewed from the water Demerara is disap-pointing, for the one-time dykes have beentransformed into broad sea-walls and greatdocks, lined with warehouses, stores and build-ings which almost hide the town beyond. Butas the traveler emerg
Isles of spice and palm . A Coolie Woman. The Canals are a Feature of Demerara TIP END OF THE CONTINENT tion of their time and labor to keeping the seaout of their possessions. True to this custom,Georgetown is low and flat and is several feetbelow sea level—or rather river level, for thetown fronts on the great Demerara River,nearly twenty miles from the ocean. Viewed from the water Demerara is disap-pointing, for the one-time dykes have beentransformed into broad sea-walls and greatdocks, lined with warehouses, stores and build-ings which almost hide the town beyond. Butas the traveler emerges from the docks hesteps into a great, busy, bustling, moderntown. The broad, straight streets are smoothand well kept; trolley cars run here, there andeverj^here; automobiles and motor truckshurry hither and thither; drays, trucks andcarts pass and repass in a constant stream, andpeople of innumerable races and of every shadeand color throng the sidewalks and the , as in most West Indian towns, col-ored people predomin
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