By Dint of Gathering the Large Harvest Now to Be Seen "The material results alone far exceed the most sanguine expectations of those who instigated the expedition, Those who have seen the collections have marvelled at the fuct that old Chinese plate bowls and Jars exist in the Phill pines, "It isan. entirely natural State' of affairs, however. Before the Europeans came to the islands, the Chinese carried on commerce with the natives, The Chinese traded their products for the pro-duets of the islands. 'Those Chine ese wares $90n became heirlooms in the native families, and in the end were buried with individuals who had been closely associated with toom. In time, the caves or graves were forgotten' and lost, later to be found accidentally by farmers and woodcutters who did not understand what they encountered and wer' clined to attribute supernatural powers to their friends.
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