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native to the island, most of them having been introduced from 
the old world. The original Arawak Indians, exterminated by 
the Spaniards, lived principally on fish, cassava and the common 
wild yam. The papaw, guava and mammee are native. 
The chief products of Jamaica are bananas, sugar, coffee, 
pimento or allspice, cocoanuts and ginger. The orange-market 
has been ruined by unscrupulous middlemen who were in the 
habit of buying up green fruit and shipping it to America early 
1G. z. Residence of Mr. William Harris, Hope Gardens, — show- 
ing Eucalyptus citriodora, Bignonia venusta, etc. Photographed by . M 
in the season. After the Florida freeze many orange-planta- 
tions were put out in Jamaica, but few cf them have been at ail 
profitable. The seedless orange does not grow to perfection 
there, and the ordinary sweet orange, although delicious in 
flavor and very juicy, cannot be profitably marketed. 
