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Denmark Did Less. Of the 22 countries that also cut the value of their money, most were small, sterling-area nations whose fortunes depend on their sales to Britain, or to other devaluing countries. Sixteen precisely matched the 14.3% British devaluation: Barbados, Bermuda, Cyprus, Fiji, Gambia, Guyana, Israel, Ireland, Jamaica, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago. At first, Hong Kong lowered the exchange value of its dollar by a like amount, but the price of food (mostly imported from mainland China) and other goods promptly jumped between 7% and 20%, stirring so much discontent among...
Overwhelmed with commissions in later life, he took off in 1890 for "a year of recreation and idleness" in the South Seas, visited Samoa, Fiji and Tahiti. His quick sketches, executed on the spot, caught the gaiety and innocence of an as yet unspoiled paradise with verve and masterly handling of light and flashing color. He just missed meeting Gauguin in Tahiti. In practice, La Farge was too much the meticulous mandarin (he loathed shaking hands with strangers) to refer to Gauguin other than as the "wild Frenchman." But his artist's eye easily bridged the gulf...
...bands of white-helmeted Royal Marines followed by the kilted pipers and bearskin-topped drummers of the Scots Guards and the Royal Scots Greys. Later in the evening, in sandals, scarlet tunics and saw-toothed white skirts (called sulus) came the 57-man band of Her Majesty's Fiji Military Forces. The occasion, and a glittering one indeed, was the Royal Marines Tattoo, now touring North America...
...tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal I. R. Maravunaqaraidakuwaqa), they stripped down to palm skirts and battle paint to demonstrate island war dances called mekes...
...from Aden (bone sellers, dates, gums and spices) to Zambia (cement makers, mining companies, clothing manufacturers). The International Yellow Pages also locates beeswax in Angola, molasses in the British West Indies, yacht charterers in Cambodia, industrial real estate agents and vodka vendors in the Soviet Union, lawyers in the Fiji Islands, safari services in Kenya, coconut harvesters in Tanzania. Even Pope Paul's Vatican City telephone number is in the book: Vatican City...