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National Geographic : 1920 Mar
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE IN MANY DISTRICTS CAMPHOR WORKERS REQUIRE THE PROTECTION OF ARMED GUARDS Tales of the camphor workers recall the days of our pioneer fathers, who constantly faced the dangers of tomahawk and scalping-knife. large tracts of land are given over to the cultivation of the camphor laurel. The oldest of these cultivated trees are now twenty years of age, and these, I am in formed, are to be cut down next year. Paradoxical as it may seem at first glance, the savage head-hunters of For mosa have been both an impediment and a boon to the camphor industry. As the forests are cut down, the head- hunters have to be driven further back into the mountains. These expeditions against the savages are never very suc cessful, encountering as they do heavy obstacles in the way of dense forests, rapid streams without bridges, steep mountains without trails, and, above all, the danger of sudden attack. The life of a camphor worker is in deed an adventurous one; he is never 266
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