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Bananas: Nature's Institution for the Promotion of Laziness

Perry, Edward Wilkin· 2 chapters· 7,476 words

The chapter given in the following pages is from a work entitled: “TROPICAL AMERICA: ITS PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS,” now in preparation. _Sports Afield_ said of the author: “Probably no American is more competent to write of the country life than is this author, who, because of...

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1. Part 1

The chapter given in the following pages is from a work entitled: “TROPICAL AMERICA: ITS PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS,” now in preparation. _Sports Afield_ said of the author: “Prob...

2. Part 2

A report dated August 1, 1903, by Las Haciendas de Santa Clara, Costa Rica, which has 550 acres of bananas in full bearing, and where wages are one colon or 47 cents per diem, g...