| Show labor at the guiana gold fields every placer has lias a inon who dom does nothing lothing else but pack provisions from ane riverside to the placer the government limit fruit for the load is 50 pounds hut but sometimes pounds or even inore is carried but of course for ex extra tra pay the colored boy mnnuel whom I 1 employed not yet a grown man on one occasion carried TO 70 r rounds pounds while 1 I carrying two tents is eughing about 15 pounds became very U car cary y after traveling half balf the distance I 1 hereupon he took one of the tents on top of his load probably he could have hae made the cl distance istAnce in four hou hours rs but owing to raj MY slowness it il took us ua all day and 1 I arrived at our destination completely worn out it is certainly impossible ible jor for a white man to labor n that swampy country thomas eal rl sh in century |
