FROM ANCON TO THE ISLAND 



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The American restaurant (Fig. 10) is big and 

 clean, and little breezes blow through it pleasantly, 

 sending the white paper napkins scurrying across 



Fig. 10. The American restaurant in Ancan 



the cement floor. The breakfast is much the same 

 that any American cafeteria would serve in mid- 

 summer. The oranges are peeled like apples, 

 with only a button of rind left at one end to hold 

 while the rest is eaten. The melon that looks 

 and tastes much like a cantelope is really a 

 papaya, which grows on a tree instead of a vine. 

 In the photograph (Fig. 11, page 24) the porcu- 

 pine is posing on the crown of one of these papaya 

 trees. 



