![]() ![]() ![]() The events from the opening passage to this post occurred in the late 1800s. Having subsequent trouble recruiting Costa Rican laborers, Keith eventually brought in blacks from the Caribbean islands (mainly Jamaica), Chinese, and even Italians, to complete the project.”The ?.?.?. Some of them had been down before in the filibustering days of William Walker.Of that bunch about twentyfive came out alive.The rest left their whiskyscalded carcases to rot in the swamps.On another load he shipped down fifteen hundred they all died to prove that only Jamaica Negroes could live in Limon.Minor Keith didn’t die.”This quote from Wikipedia: “As many as four thousand people, including Keith's three brothers, died during the construction of the first 25 miles of track. He offered a dollar a day and grub and hired seven hundred men. “Limon was one of the worst pestholes on the Caribbean, even the Indians died there of malaria, yellow jack, dysentery.Keith went back up to New Orleans on the steamer ?. ![]()
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