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Ceylon Tea Packers 1908

Content: Printed on verso: "The amount of tea exported annually from Ceylon exceeds 150,000,000 lbs., and about 100,000 coolies from Southern India are employed in the tea-gardens. The greatest tea-districts are Dickoya and Dimbula, where a large number of coolies are employed under the skilled charge of such men as the Cingalese overseer here shown."

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Content: Printed on verso: "The amount of tea exported annually from Ceylon exceeds 150,000,000 lbs., and about 100,000 coolies from Southern India are employed in the tea-gardens. The greatest tea-districts are Dickoya and Dimbula, where a large number of coolies are employed under the skilled charge of such men as the Cingalese overseer here shown."
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