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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Yes, indeed; there are few people within a hundred miles of the place who did not know the famous sugar-mill and its hospitable owner, Senhor Armstrong. But excuse me," added the Peruvian, with some hesitation, "you are aware, I suppose, that your father is dead?" "Ay, well do I know that," returned the other in a deeper tone.
The process adopted in the sugar-mill we speak of was of most primitive simplicity. The European manufacturers employ iron cylinders turned by steam or water power; also lift and force pumps, which quickly convey the sap into the basins in which it is to be clarified by fermentation.
The next morning we took a walk over the estate before breakfast, visiting the negroes' quarters, the sugar-mill, and other buildings, and gaining thereby an appetite which proved most destructive to our host's pickled mackerel, cold boiled tongue, eggs, etcetera.
This conversation took place after the earthwork was cleared of the enemy at least of the living enemy, for the whole interior was crowded with their dead and while the sailors and artillerymen were turning the two Krupp guns found in it upon the retiring foe and the ruins of the old sugar-mill to which the Soudanese still clung.
Miles upon miles of the bright, golden sugar-cane lie in all directions; among the plantations here and there is seen the little cluster of low buildings constituting the laborers' quarters, and near by is the tall, white chimney of the sugar-mill, emitting its thick volume of smoke, like the funnel of a steamship.
These orders were never infringed except secretly. We discovered only two or three cases of their infraction. Sekeletu was well pleased with the various articles we brought for him, and inquired if a ship could not bring his sugar-mill and the other goods we had been obliged to leave behind at Tette.
Her iron anchor, chain, and wheel still remained, together with two queer little iron cannon, which I should have much liked to carry off as a memorial of our visit. We then turned up a narrow shadeless path, bordered by stone walls, leading away from the sea, past a sugar-mill and a ruin.
He fixed a system for the cultivation of the fields, and when hands were needed for the harvest he enlisted them forcibly. Yet agriculture made little progress under the primitive methods employed, a broad board serving for a plough, while the wheat was ground in mortars, and a piece of wood moved by oxen formed the sugar-mill.
Gabriel's Kindness to them Difficulties in Trading Two Makololo Forays during our Absence Report of the Country to the N.E. Death of influential Men The Makololo desire to be nearer the Market Opinions upon a Change of Residence Climate of Barotse Valley Diseases Author's Fevers not a fair Criterion in the Matter The Interior an inviting Field for the Philanthropist Consultations about a Path to the East Coast Decide on descending North Bank of Zambesi Wait for the Rainy Season Native way of spending Time during the period of greatest Heat Favorable Opening for Missionary Enterprise Ben Habib wishes to marry A Maiden's Choice Sekeletu's Hospitality Sulphureted Hydrogen and Malaria Conversations with Makololo Their moral Character and Conduct Sekeletu wishes to purchase a Sugar-mill, etc.
A garden enclosed by palings lay between the field and the house; and on one side we could perceive the roofs of numerous cabins denoting the negro quarter. At some distance in the same direction, stood the sugar-mill and other outbuildings, and near these the house of Gayarre's overseer. This point was to be avoided. Even the negro quarter must be shunned, lest we might give alarm.
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