caima

Updated: July 12, 2025

The works are in the ravine below the house, and the Caima furnishes ample water power.... Many women and girls are employed preparing the ores, some of them remarkably good-looking.... Their wages are from two to three shillings a week.

John Knox Laughton - Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. : In Two Volumes. Volume II.