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Title: Africa and its inhabitants
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e bananas, and other sub-tropical fruits, are raised forthe Lisbon market. Were trade relieved from its fiscal burdens, this industrymight be vastly developed, and Madeira might become the southern garden ofWestern Europe. Lisbon also largely imports the products of the local handicrafts,such as lace, embroidery, artificial flowers, straw hats, matting, carved and inlaidwood, and a thousand other objects needing taste and a deft hand. In the villagesthese articles are produced chiefly by the women and the infirm. Another less praiseworthy but no less profitable pursuit is the systematic plunderof invalids and other strangers who come to recruit their strength in this delightfulisland. But many of these die in the place where they sought renewed life, andMadeira has even been called one of Londons cemeteries. The fault, however,as remarked by M. Thiercelin, is not with the land where people come to die, butwith that where they have lived. The number of visitors varies from year to year
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S5 mHABITiVNTS OP MADEIEA. 53 with the whim of fashion and the vicissitudes of trade. But the strangers who passthe winter in Funchal may on an averagp be estimated at five hundred, mostlyEnglish, who spend about £100,000 in the country. Lying on the track ofthe Atlantic steamers plying along the West African seaboard, Madeira also bene- Fi)f. 23.—FuNcii.vL AND SoooKEinos Valley.Scale I : 130,000.

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