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short time in the same plantation, and then calmly 

 abandons that plantation and makes another. 



Not all African negroes live on bananas ; here, 

 for instance, is an interesting description from a 

 French author and traveller, Pierre Loti, of the life 



FIG. 8. Women working in a Plantation in Africa. 



of the women in the region where the little grain 

 called millet is the chief food-stuff : 



" It is upon the women that the severest labour 

 of the natives falls, that of pounding the millet for 

 the kusskuss. From morning till night, through- 

 out the whole of Nubia from Timbuctu to the coast 

 of Guinea, in all the villages of reed and straw, 



