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Minicent.
3 June, 1891. healthy, full of the cold Atlantic breeze an comfortably
blowing. From here we get a glimpse of the island of St Lucia
about 25 miles across the channel. Altogether there are
12 acres of Induance property here.
To the north of the frontory is Oria Bay and shipping
is easy here except in very boartime weather. The road
runs on for three miles further to Fancy on the upper
port side, and terminates there. The only way to get thence
to the leeward side, except riding Rockall along the
windward coast, is to take a canoe to Moore Ronds villers
well down the leeward side of the island, where there is
a tract of land reserved for the use of the Black Caribs.
The black Caribs live at Moore Ronde, as they did not
offer the English in the Canes; was they received better
treatment than their yellow half brothers. Most of whom
of the Caribs here are removed to the little rocky island
of Multivie where many died of fever and starvation,
and those remaining are after a while deported to the
island of Beaton in the gulf of Honduras, when some
of their descendants now live.
With Mr Beach, the manager of Oria Estate, we visited the
cannots works. The underground stews, arheines of the
plant are down there, in a well with both as far run by
Minicent.
3 June, 1891 into press. The pulp and fibrous matter is then carefully
into to pieces of decreasing sized meshes, which remove
all the film, husk and allow the starch grains to pass.
After going through the piece, the starch water is canned,
or run into settling tanks when it is allowed to remain until
a sharp hard
the starch is deposited on the bottoms, and clear straw remains,
when sufficient deposition of starch has taken place the
straw husk
supernatant water is drawn off by means of holes in
the settling tanks which are opened by pulling out the
plugs. The cannoes is then dug out with clean spades,
past on lumps. These lumps are first on trays, with wire
bottoms, and put in tiers in the drying house. The house
is closed at the sides by price putting so as to allow free
circulation of air. In all the operations the greatest
carelessness is observed, for therein the value of the
produce will be greatly deteriorated. When dry the
cannoot is packed in clean flour barrels lined with
blue denim wrapping paper and the mark of the Estate
and the number of the barrel is sealed on the package.
The Oria cannoots has an excellent name in the great
markets of the world, and every effort appears to be used to
keep up the reputation of the make.
We bid good bye to Mr Beach, the manager, and