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FRUIT-BEARERS RESTING ON THEIR WAY TO MARKET 



Formosan pineapples are smaller than the Hawaiian varieties, but they make up in flavor 

 what they lack in size. The smaller fruit are longans. From the green leaves of the pine- 

 apple the Formosans get a fiber which they convert into a cool summer cloth. The island is 

 no less famous for its flowers than for its fruit. 



LABORERS THRESHING RICE 



The portable tubs constituting the Formosan's threshing apparatus look for all the world 

 like sails, in the wake of which follow the threshers with their bundles of grain. These they 

 rap smartly against the corrugated boards affixed to the tubs, to separate the rice from the 

 blade. 



