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PLANTATION LABOUR.
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labour on the smaller estates, which are generally worked by free labour, as the preparations for contracted labour are expensive, and can only be undertaken on a large scale.
The natives of India work on very friendly terms with the coloured people of the islands, the descendants of the old African slaves, and
BASKETS OF CACAO ON PLANTAIN LEAVES.
the cocoa estate provides a healthy life for all, with a home amid surroundings of the most congenial kind.[1]
In other cocoa-growing countries processes vary somewhat. On the larger estates artificial drying is slowly superseding the natural method,
- ↑ See frontispiece.
