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acres were covered — studed with dead trunks of trees killed 
A. 
by fire. Very few young pine v/ere present. At the present rate of 
destruction the pine will soon be extinct. Nearly every tree yet 
existing mangled by natives for fire wood, l^ny cases fires started 
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near the base of a mountain slope, traveH to top burning acres of 
ground leaving the slope bare. A clearing is made for only one crop. 
I^any strawberries and blackberries on mountain top. 
