National Geographic Society (U.S.) · Washington : National Geographic Society · leaf 284
FRUIT-BEARERS RESTING ON THEIR WAY TO MARKET Formosan pineapples are smaller than the Hawaiian varieties, but they make up in flavor what they lack in size. The smaller fruit are longans. From the green leaves of the pine- apple the Formosans get a fiber which they convert into a cool summer cloth.… … __ The portable tubs constituting the Formosan’s threshing apparatus look for all the world like sails, in the wake of which follow the threshers with their bundles of grain. These they rap smartly against the corrugated boards affixed to the tubs, to separate the rice from the blade.
Geography
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