. The redemption of Egypt. onsiderably larger thanthe pumping station. The European staff numbers about tAventy,of Avhom some ten or tAvelve are Englishmen The most import-ant of these are the manager, Mr. N. J. Sinnott, the chief andassistant engineers, and the chemical adviser. The number ofnatiA^es employed is 400—men, Avomen, and children; the menare paid at the rate of three piastres (/id.) a day, and the Avomenand children receive about half of this sum. They Avork in dayand night shifts of 200 each; for the fact that the liquid ex-tracted from the cane requires immediate treatment, and
. The redemption of Egypt. onsiderably larger thanthe pumping station. The European staff numbers about tAventy,of Avhom some ten or tAvelve are Englishmen The most import-ant of these are the manager, Mr. N. J. Sinnott, the chief andassistant engineers, and the chemical adviser. The number ofnatiA^es employed is 400—men, Avomen, and children; the menare paid at the rate of three piastres (/id.) a day, and the Avomenand children receive about half of this sum. They Avork in dayand night shifts of 200 each; for the fact that the liquid ex-tracted from the cane requires immediate treatment, and other Q 242 THE REDEMPTION OF EGYPT considerations, make it necessary that the mill should workcontinuously during the period—about three months—^in whichthe crushing for the year is effected. In this working year ofthree months, or thereabouts, 75,000 tons of cane can be treated,and 10 per cent., or 7500 tons of raw sugar on an average, canbe extracted. The entire process consists of four distinct operations. First,. i^Si- •Ji^^-:^^h<-r. Feeding the Mill with Cane. the cane is crushed; second, the liquid thus obtained is purified;third, the purified liquid is reduced by evaporation to massecuite—a mixture of sugar crystals and molasses; and fourth, thecrystals are separated from the molasses. As we passed throughthe mill, Mr. Carver explained the several stages of the before we entered the factory, we went first to see how thecrushing machines were fed. Here we found a busy throng ofArabs taking the cane from the trucks in which it had been RAILWAYS, SUGAR, AM) FINANCE 243 brought from the fields, and phicing it in layers upon the carrier,a continuous band which passes into the mill, and through therollers of the crushing machines. We followed the band intothe mill, where the successive machines were tearing: the operation was effected, we were told, by the triple crushingprocess. The cane is passed through three successive it leav
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