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Here there is a sense of colonial ideas – in this case the vegetable gardens – being quite literally imposed onto a hostile landscape. Barker, ignoring the difficulties encountered when cultivating land on a 45 degree slope, describes the local gardeners as 'happy' and 'undeterred by the slope'.