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Fig. 35. — Native cane mill at the Artibonite River near Las Cahobes, 

 Haiti, on the road to Hinche. The juice of the cane, expressed by heavy 

 wooden rollers, is boiled over open fires in the shed in the background to 

 make rapadou or crude sugar. Taken April 20, 1927. 



Fig. 36. — Looking across the central plain of Haiti near Hinche. Annual 

 fires burn off the prairies so that the peculiar plants and animals are confined 

 to ravines cut below the general level. Taken April 23, 1927. 



