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outer wrapper made with capa. The cigar- 
maker takes a small handful of leaves ( tripa ) 
and twists and rolls them until he gets the 
proper consistency ; then he wraps it with the 
binder and takes the covering leaf (capa), 
which has been specially cut and prepared to 
the proper shape, and rolls it around the 
bunch of tobacco, fastening the bottom end 
with a daub of common starch-paste. A good 
worker will make about 250 cigars in a day 
of ten hours. 
Cigarettes. Simultaneously with the pro- 
duction of the Jamaica cigar, great progress 
has been made in the manufacture of cigar- 
ettes, the local demand for which is supplied 
to a great extent by local manufacture. 
Cigarettes are, by some manufacturers, made 
by machinery, whilst others (including this 
factory) employ girls exclusively. 
On approaching the room where the 
cigarettes were made the writer, hearing the 
buzz and whir of machinery, ventured to re- 
mark, “ So you use machinery in the manu- 
facture of your cigarettes.” The manager re- 
plied with an amused smile, “ Our cigarettes 
are all hand-made.” The mistake was soon 
discovered. The cigarettes were hand-made 
and over one hundred girls were busy at this 
work ; the factory claimed the use of their 
hands but placed no restrictions on their 
conversational powers. Echoes of tit-bits 
follow : — 
“ — hat in church last Sunday one pound 
of sugar to not the style of beauty 
over thirty if a stay at home to 
