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ditions of location and climate neces- 

 sary for the cultivation of this cereal. 

 On one side of the railroad track was 

 the broad, muddy inland lake or bay 

 of salt water, Pearl Harbor; on the 

 other side were the terraced plots or 

 fields, flooded to a depth of several 

 inches with water and separated by 

 narrow raised earthen ridges on which 

 the careful Chinaman doubtless suc- 

 ceeded in walking, but which many 

 times proved treacherous to our un- 

 steady feet. A rice plantation, laid 

 out as it generally is on the low flats 

 at the foot of a valley, where moun- 

 tain streams empty into the sea, is 

 an ideal collecting ground for certain 

 kinds of algae. While the rice plants 

 are growing and until they are mature, 

 they are kept under water which is not 

 stagnant or sour, but which flows off 

 gradually and is constantly renewed. 



