LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



1. PXJNTLOADS OF SUGAR-CANE ARRIVING AT A DEMERARA 



jIILL ... - - Frontispiece 



FACING PAOK 



2. GROUP OF DRIVERS, DEMERARA - - - - 1 



3. COOLIE LINES - - - - - - 8 



4. KOKER, OR SLUICE-GATE, ON A DEMERARA SUGAR ESTATE - 11 



5. SATURDAY AFTERNOON SCENE ON A DEMERARA SUGAR ESTATE 14 



6. UNLOADING CANES AT THE MILL - - - - 17 



7. PAYING SUGAR ESTATE LABOURERS, DEMERARA - - 24 



8. A SUGAR estate's MARKET-PLACE - - - - 27 



9. THE TAJA FESTIVAL - - - - - 30 



10. PUNT UNDER SUGAR- BAG CANVAS - - - - 33 



11. REAPING SUGAR-CANE - - - - - 33 



12. R.M.S.P. company's cargo service shipping cane-sugar 40 



13. A BUSY WHARF AT THE CHIEF PORT OF BARBADOS 43 



14. WINDMILL SUGAR WORKS AT BARBADOS, BRITISH WEST 



INDIES - - - - - - - 46 



15. OXEN CONVEYING SUGAR-CANES FROM FIELD TO MILL - 49 



16. INTERIOR OF A WEST INDIAN SUGAR AHLL - - - 66 



17. PRIMITIVE SUGAR MILL - - - - - 69 



18. SPIDER MEN - - - - - - 62 



19. EXTERIOR OF A WEST INDIAN SUGAR MILL - - 62 



20. SHIPPING SUGAR AT BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS - - 06 



21. PLANE CREEK CENTRAL MILL, QUEENSLAND - - 72 



22. WHITE CANE CUTTERS, QUEENSLAND - - •75 



23. MOUNTAIN OF SUGAR-BEETROOTS BEING WASHED DOWN 



CANALS INTO FACTORY - - - - - 78 



24. AUTOMATIC LOADING OF TRUCKS WITH " PULP " FOR RE- 



DELIVERY TO THE FARMERS FOR CATTLE FOOD - 86 



25. SOME OF THE CENTRIFUGAL MACHINES AT THE REFINERY 



OF MESSRS. HENRY TATE AND SONS, LTD. - - 86 



26. WOMEN LABOURERS IN SUGAR-BEET FIELD IN SAXONY 



(from A STEREOGRAPH BY MESSRS. UNDERWOOD AND 



UNDERWOOD) .... On the ewer 



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