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149.

Where is India?
delta of the Ganges.
The ‘Ganges river floats large’ boats a
thousand miles
through its

India.

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fertile valley.
Which belt. of
Wheat crosses

this valley ?

india is not eae one half so
large as the United States, but
it has four times as many people
as our country. Rice is the food
of about one third the people
of the Ganges valley.

India raises large crops of rice, cotton,
wheat, poppy and many other plants. The
poppy plant yields a drug, called opwwm. A
large part of these products is sent to Eng-
land and to China.

India imports cloth, machines, hardware,
sugar and many other kinds of goods.

Bombay and Calcutta are the leading ports
of India. Each of these cities has about one
half as many people as gy tliere are in the city
of New York. =.

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_about the people of this country ?

The greater part of India is under British
rule. Most of the people are Hindus (or
Hindoos). They belong to the white race.

150. China.

What have you read about the plains of
China? Find the city of Canton. Where is
the island of Hongkong?

The trade of China with other nations is

-carried on mainly through Hongkong, a Brit-

ish island.

‘The chief products of. China are tea
and silk. The leading imports are
cotton cloth and opium.

On the Yang-tse-Kiang, steamers can
go a thousand miles through the crowded
plams of China.

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151.
Where is Japan?

Japan.

What have you read
Name
some of its products.

Where is Yokohama? Where is Tokyo?

Tokyo is nearly as large as New York.
Yokohama is the leading port of Japan.

The chief exports of Japan are silk and
tea. The chief imports are cotton and
woolen goods, sugar and kerosene.