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TERNATE 44 TOPOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL DESCRIPTIONS
without exaggeration can be counted in the millions, it is understandable that the yield of
this article of food is not highly valued. The natives can obtain higher prices if they take
their products to the coast, but they do not consider the ready cash to be worth the trouble.
Their willing assent to the terms of the agreement produces a general cheerfulness in the
village. When evening falls, the men accompany us to Kau-Islam and in front of the house
of the district chief they perform their national war dance.
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