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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from M. Branger and Sons 



SUNSHINE AXI) SHADOW ON TICM I'LIv STAIRS IN ANNAM 



Both the men and women of Annam wear wide trousers and long black tunics with 

 narrow sleeves. Their country is a narrow ribbon of land, 800 miles long, on the eastern 

 coast of the Indo-Chinese peninsula. France exercises a protectorate over the 6,000,000 

 natives. 



