Ten Thousand Miles in a Yacht Round the West Indies And Up the Amazon
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Yet the climate is healthy, and on the plateau and hills it is even delightful and exhilarating. The great drawback to cultivation is the difficulty of secur- ing reliable and continuous labor. The native Negroes, who constitute nearly the entire pop- ulation, are not under the necessity of doing much 55 TEN THOUSAND MILES IN A YACHT work. There are plenty of fish in the sea near their abodes, and natural fruits and foods to their liking grow everywhere in abundance. The cli- mate is such that ...they require little in the way A MOUNTAIN LAKE, DOMINICA of clothing and housing, and they have no ambi- tion towards a different sort of existence. So why should they work ? But if an enterprising man, in search of fresh fields and pastures new, could solve the labor problem of the island, here is a soil for his tilling that would yield tenfold, twentyfold, yea, r a hundredfold. 56 IN THE FOREST, DOMINICA TEN THOUSAND MILES IN A YACHT The Negroes speak a curious lingo, a sort of French patois, originally picked up from the French settlers in the Antilles.
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