The New America And the Far East volume 8

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The New America And the Far East volume 8
George Waldo Browne
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Under the Spanish rule it was impossible for them ever to become landowners, or even to earn enough to make a decent living. The low plane of life found in China is here practically PORTO IIICO. 1397 duplicated. The higliest wages received by these labourers was fifty cents in Spanish money a day, and at this rate not over five months' employ- ment a year was to be obtained. The w^orkman could not support himself and family on this, and to fill in the gap must cultivate a garden patch. This may... be done high up on some precipitous hillside, or on the very edge of a cliff. These spots are of little if any real value for tillage, and the peon who works them cannot expect great results. But a few batatas, AKMY HEAIXjrAKTKltS. A sort of sweet potato, a little rice, some beans and melons, will go a long way in a family trained for generations to be frugal. To those who have been accustomed to look for rice-fields in the lowlands, where they can be irrigated, it is an odd sight to see their prototype on the 3xtreme summit of some mountain, but in Porto Rico one soon comes to look for almost anything.

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