This action was taken by this company largely because of the uncertain and unsatisfactory conditions of the henequen industry in Yucatan, caused by Mexican revolutions and the arbitrary conduct of Mexican officials.
Twenty more caballerias or 666 acres of henequen are owned by independent parties in the neighborhood of Nuevitas, on the north coast of the Province of Camaguey.
Several millions were invested in the Matanzas henequen industry, started by a company of Germans, who recently sold out to local and foreign capitalists.
The following is an authentic estimate of the cost of growing henequenand producing sisal or fibre from the same in Cuba.
Thousands of acres of barren hillsides south of the city were planted in henequen at that time, and have since furnished enough raw material to keep this rope factory going throughout the entire year.
There they were made slaves on the great henequen plantations.
They dropped dead in the henequen fields, and their places were taken by more.
It is also their duty to rasp a certain amount of henequen fiber from the agave each day.
Hammocks (kaan) of cotton or henequen fiber are always conspicuous articles of furniture, as they are slung all around the room, making it very difficult to move about in it when they are let down.
Henequen fiber was doubtless used for the manufacture of rope, mats, hammocks, and other objects, as grooved flat stones for beating the pulp from the fiber are common.
The perforations in the upper vase corresponded exactly to those in the lower when they were discovered, suggesting that they had been connected by cords of henequen fiber, ti-ti, or some perishable material which had disintegrated.
On the feet they use sandals of danta hide (xanapkeuel) held in place by a leather or henequen thong passing between the great and second toes and around the back of the heel to the front of the instep, where it is fastened.
A piece of henequen cord, provided with a noose at one end, and with a stick long enough to extend from one stake to the other, firmly tied by its middle above the noose, is attached to the top of the sapling by its other end.
The cloth beam is attached round the back of the weaver by a thick henequen cord (yamal), enabling him to tighten the warp at will by simply leaning backward.
All classes wore sandals of leather or platted henequen fiber.
Lucullus never entertained Caesar with more gorgeous banquets than the henequen lords of Merida spread before Diaz.
Henequen (Spanish jeniquen or geniquen) is a fibre commercially known as Sisal hemp, from the fact that it is obtained from a species of cactus, the Agave Sisalensis, first cultivated around the tiny port of Sisal in Yucatan.
Henequen is at once strong enough and cheap enough.
They met the shortage, and importers found that they had in the henequen fibre at once a cheaper and a stronger corn-binder.
One henequen lord went a few years ago to the St. Louis Exhibition.
On the trolleys, then, the henequen leaves are conveyed to the hacienda buildings, where an elaborate machinery is waiting to crush out the gold-yielding fibre.
By the time the sun is up, the cattle have been tended and the Indians are off to the milpas or the henequen fields.
Raul dismounted in front of a doorless hut, and began to pull off his corn sack, tugging at the leather thongs and henequen cords.
We tarried but one day at Ascorra, for we wished to visit the Tepich Hacienda, where the largest henequen factory in these parts is to be seen, worked by machinery, a great innovation for this country.
Annual fires are run over the country to clear the ground for the labourers, who then dig holes in the rocky soil and set out the henequen plants.
The road to Kabah, our next stage, passing by Ticul, lies as usual through a flat tract of land, varied here and there by plantations of henequen and maize.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "henequen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
