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have been mostly waste lands.
When visiting Lama
island (the nearest Island of the Minese Empire to Hongkong) in loyy, I forns the natives spreasing out fine- tree comes Large chunnames space
on
a
for the purpose of saving the less. The frinese
islaño showed me
on the
their curseries
and pointed out the
grover
of
young trees they had for many years past been planting at - the rate of about fifty thousand
every year.
6.
villages
flose to the Chinese in the neighbourhood of
the
the bolony, groups of well preserved
trees are to be seen. Those trees are sometimes the common
property of
rules are
the
villagers. festain
scrupulously observed as to the mode of collecting fireword, thinning the trees, and utilizing them for the community without permanently injuring
them. In addition to those
village groves of old trees, new -
the hills are plantations
an
frequently met with. This is
shown in the enclosed u
photograph which was taken
by Wi Ford. I
duplicate
two
is a
years ago
picture of a part of the
island
ཏྭཾཏྭཱ། ཏཾ སྶསཀྑུ
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