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PROSPEROUS PEASANTS OF TENERIFFE |
MODERN TROGLODYTES AT HOME IN TENERIFFE |
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| The inhabitants of the Canary Islands are chiefly of Spanish descent with traces of the original natives, the Guanches, who are now extinct. Education is backward, but the islanders are by no means unenterprising and have several flourishing home industries | Teneriffe is the largest of the Canary Islands, a volcanically-formed archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. It has a rich, though rugged, surface, crowned by the volcanic Pico de Teyde, over 12,000 feet high. Some of the poorest inhabitants make their homes in strange cavern-like houses bored in the rock-formation — a genial climate making this primitive mode of living far from unpleasant |