Rats and the Mongoose in Jamaica

C. B. Lewis

doi:10.1017/S003060530003619X

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The European brown and black rats probably reached Jamaica by the earliest ships. In any case these prolific rodents, along with the equally prolific cane-piece rat, have always been a tremendous problem on sugar estates, and for several hundred years estate owners have found it necessary to expend large sums for rat catching.

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