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ever of the three has available accommodation when 

 she comes into harbour. To-day our destination is the 

 extensive wharf belonging to Messrs. Sandbach, Parker 

 and Co., by whose courtesy I am going to take you to 

 see the impressive and amusing scenes amidst which a 

 Koyal Mail and Direct Line cargo-steamer is shipping 

 a load of sugar. 



CHAPTEK XIV 



HOW DEMERARA SUGAR LEAVES HOME — continued 



Standing at the entrance to a large warehouse, you 

 are confronted by massive stacks of bulging sugar-bags, 

 that stretch far away into the beyond, and reach from 

 the floor almost to the roof. 



A broad gangway leads across the building to the 

 main door, where you have paused to take a first glance 

 around ; at intervals, narrow passages intersect the 

 wall-like piles lengthways, and transversely. Here and 

 there you notice that a sugar-bag wall on one side of a 

 gangway is lower than its opposite neighbour ; and you 

 single out spots amidst the neatly towering masses 

 where a rough-and-tumble little heap of sugar-bags 

 suggests the ruins of an erstwhile solid wall. These 

 breaks in the stacks have been made by the removal 

 of sugar-bags for embarkation. 



Walk a few yards along the broad gangway, so that 

 you can get a more detailed view of your surroundings ; 

 but stand well back out of harm's way, for even into 

 this, the quietest of the passages, a heavily laden truck 

 may come whizzing round a corner at any moment, 



