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The "Great Eastern" and the "Oceanic"—A Comparison
1899
Scientific American
primitive these dwellings really are. The walls con sist of rather slight posts set in the ground, closed in with the bark of the native trees, while the roof con sist of light pole rafters with a thick covering of palm leaves. The inhabitants of these huts are employed chiefly on the farms and in the tobacco factories, where they do the common laboring, receiving for their ser vices a wage which varies from 38 to 60 cents a day. These poorer classes live on dried codfish, sweet pota toes,
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican09231899-201
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