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tion would produce any change in the zoology. The
village had only been formed about ten years, and was
quite as neat as those I had passed through and much
more picturesque. I t is placed on a small level spot, from
which there is an abrupt wooded descent down to the
beautiful lake of Tondano, with volcanic mountains beyond.
On one side is a ravine, and beyond it a fine
mountainous and wooded country.
Hear the village are the coffee plantations. The trees
are planted in rows, and are kept topped to about seven
feet high. This causes the lateral branches to grow very
strong, so that some of the trees become perfect hemispheres,
loaded with fruit from topyto bottom, and producing
from ten to twenty pounds each of cleaned coffee
annually. These plantations were all formed by the
Government, and are cultivated by the villagers under
the direction of their chief. Certain days are appointed
for weeding or gathering, and the whole working population
are summoned by sound of gong. An account is
kept of the number of hours’ work done by each family,
and at the year’s end the produce of the sale is divided
among them proportionately. The coffee is taken to
Government stores established at central places over the
whole country, and is paid for at a low fixed price.
Out of this a certain percentage goes to the chiefs and
majors, and the remainder is divided among the inhac
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