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gambier rises or fails. If a picul of gambier realizes 1½ dollars the monthly pay will be about 3 dollars. If a picul realizes 2 dollars the price of their labours will amount to about 4 dollars. There is no fixed rule, the workmen who clean the gambier plantation, and those who do different kinds of lighter work, always receive a dollar less than those who cut and boil the gambier. The above is, generally speaking, the rate of wages of labourers in the interior.
