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yet comparatively undeveloped countries of the tropics should 

 be entirely wasted by being devoted merely to the supply of the 

 food and clothing wants of their own people, when they can also 

 supply the wants of the colder zones in so many indispensable 

 products. 



The success of the European planters has had the effect of 

 stimulating the natives in many places to imitation or rivalry, 

 and in Ceylon, for instance, there are now a large number of 

 native planters, cultivating mainly coconuts, but also engaging 

 in the tea, rubber, and other industries. And the number of 

 such men continues to increase. In Southern Brazil the great 

 coffee industry is mainly in the hands of Brazilian natives, but 

 these are so largely pure white men that for the purpose of 

 this chapter they may be regarded as Europeans, from whom 

 they are of course descended. In India and West Africa 

 various " commercial " industries are entirely in native hands. 



