Posted by cdmn on March 24, 2021 at 19:20:04 from (96.33.227.18):
In Reply to: mule and oxen posted by swindave on March 24, 2021 at 16:52:24:
A few years ago I heard the story of a cousin. He was a Norwegian homesteader in N.Dakota, but couldn't make a go of it. So in about 1914, he decided to go for a job on the Panama Canal. This was about 1914, I'd guess. Anyway, he met a fellow on the train to Chicago and when he found out he'd farmed with oxen, he offered him a job on a sugar cane plantation on Martinique. He was to be in charge of their oxen which were used for hauling sugar cane to the mill. He stayed there the rest of his life, and his son after him who I met when he was in his 70's after he had retired to Minnesota. I suppose he's gone now. The sugar cane business is gone, too, but they still make rum. A lot of income now comes from tourism. The old buildings and whatever are still standing. Martinique is a little piece of France, with a pretty rough history. My distant cousin had a tough choice to make, but he lucked out. If he had gone to Panama, he might have died from the fever.
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