16 The Cultivation and Preparation of Coffee 



native his " remedio " or cure. It is by 

 showing kindness to the native that the planter 

 is able to retain him ; for I have known cases 

 of plantations having practically been deserted 

 by native labourers and being short of hands at 

 the time of the crop, through, perhaps, ill- 

 treatment or little diplomacy on the part of 

 the " capataz " or foreman with whom the 

 worker is generally in direct connection, and 

 the owner perhaps knows little of what is 

 actually happening. 



