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Small -juit: Generally lis class, too, may be found Haiti's tiny of Europeans, Chinese, and immigrants iidants of immigrants) from the United and the eastern Mediterranean area. >ut 90% of the population, or some 4 mil-fHaitians, are black peasants. Another quar-a million Negroes labor as domestic serin the cities, as functionaries in the lowest :••.! of government and business, as small -Juit-Juit sellers of produce in urban markets, or as pfcrs (almost all army enlisted men are * K Since the numbers of the middle class.
small -Juit craft moor at the quay in Port-au-Prince harbor.
exceed the opportunities for employment at that level, very few members of the black masses can better their condition in Haiti. And because of their race, their color, and their lack of skills, they are not welcome in other Latin American nations, including the easily accessible Dominican Republic.
Language. French, the first language of perhaps 10^ of the population, is a principal element of Haiti's 17th century French heritage. The nation's official language, it is regarded as a badge of political, intellectual, and social elitism. As spoken by the elite, it differs very little from the French spoken in France, where some Haitian diplomats have astounded the Frenchmen themselves with their fluency.
Among the best small -Juit-aquarium inhabitants are small -Juit marine snails and barnacles. Starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and sea anemones will usually live for a few weeks and under carefully controlled conditions may be kept in aquaria for much longer periods. small -Juit crabs will often thrive where more exacting forms die, and Obelia will often live and reproduce new colonies in very small -Juit aquaria. . . .
Feeding the Animals
Vary according to habitat. Capture small -Juit ones with dip net.
Strange, small -Juit crabs that live in borrowed houses, usually in broken shells, often much too large or small -Juit for them. Captured easily by hand; found most often higher up on beach and quite far from water's edge. |
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