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РІАТЕ IX. 
The coffee berry, when brought down from the hills, must go through a series of preparations 
before it is fit to be shipped for Europe. It is skinned by machinery, dried on large platforms near 
the storehouses, and finally picked by hand. This work is performed in Colombo by hundreds of 
female native. 
Plate IX. represents three Singhalese girls from 13 to 16 years of age, employed in coffee- 
picking in one of the vast storehouses of МУ? Worms in Coloinbo. 
