. Around and about South America. ck pillars or heavy wooden piles. The size andvast stocks of some of the larger stores, supplying everythingfrom bijouterie to boots, from staples to stationery, are veryastonishing. Several of these repositories are handsomelyand appropriately fitted up. Some of the public buildingsare of brick and stucco. The dwellings generally standdetached and secluded in beautiful gardens. They are twostories in height, rarely of three, with pretty towers and cu-polas. One sees numbers of large wooden and iron tanks nearthem, which are used as cisterns for holding rain-w
. Around and about South America. ck pillars or heavy wooden piles. The size andvast stocks of some of the larger stores, supplying everythingfrom bijouterie to boots, from staples to stationery, are veryastonishing. Several of these repositories are handsomelyand appropriately fitted up. Some of the public buildingsare of brick and stucco. The dwellings generally standdetached and secluded in beautiful gardens. They are twostories in height, rarely of three, with pretty towers and cu-polas. One sees numbers of large wooden and iron tanks nearthem, which are used as cisterns for holding rain-water—thedrinking-water of the city. The latter is well supplied withcabs, which are both good and cheap—by distance to anypart of the city, the price is one shilling; by time, four shil-lings the hour. Besides the cab-stands, one notices stands ofmule-carts and even of donkey-carts. Three lines of tram-way start from the post-office, which is centrally located andnear the river. One line runs northerly to the railway-station,. A Chinese Immigrant, Georgetown. TO THE QUI AN AS VIA BARBADOS. 373 another eastwardly to the Botanical Gardens, and anotherwestwardly around to the first great plantation on the south,called La Penitence. Georgetown has an elegant suffi-ciency of two very different kinds of public resorts, churchesand clubs. You have a choice of the churches, or chapels,of England, Scotland, the Wesleyan Methodists, RomanCatholics, United Presbyterians, Congregational Dissenters,the London Missionary Society, the Moravians, Lutherans,the coolie missions, Indian missions, sailors missions, a Port-uguese mission, and so on. As there are only two thousandwhites in the whole colony, some of the English churchesmust be content with rather slim congregations. Then, asto clubs, besides the usual social and convivial cliques pecul-iar to large cities, I find chess, rowing, athletic, lawn-tennis,cricket, rifle, and horse-racing clubs. The sea-front of British Guiana is about
Size: 1264px × 1976px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisheretcetc, bookyear189
