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cultivated, and that from Asia it spread to Africa. 

 In the wonderful East, we know, many cultivated 

 plants were produced, so that the people there 

 became numerous, flourishing, and civilised during 



FIG. 1. A Banana Plantation. 



the long centuries that the Australian woman was 

 striving with her foolish digging-stick to root up 

 the almost useless yams from the barren soil, 

 without ever thinking of trying to grow them 

 for herself. 



