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Rh labour on the smaller estates, which are generally worked by free labour, as the preparations for contracted labour are expensive, and can only be undertaken on a large scale.

The natives of India work on very friendly terms with the coloured people of the islands, the descendants of the old African slaves, and



the cocoa estate provides a healthy life for all, with a home amid surroundings of the most congenial kind.

In other cocoa-growing countries processes vary somewhat. On the larger estates artificial drying is slowly superseding the natural method,