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gambler rises or falls. If a picul of gambler realizes H dollars 
the monthly pay will be about 3 dollars. If a picul realizes 2 dol¬ 
lars the price of their labours will amount to about 4 dollars. There 
is no fixed rule, the workmen who clean the gambier plantation, 
and those who do different kinds of lighter work, always receive a 
dollar less than those who cut and boil the gambier. The above 
is, generally speaking, the rate of wages of labourers in the interior, 
