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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BURAUEN , a See also:

TOWN

town of the See also:

province of Leyte, See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Leyte, Philippine Islands, on the Dagitan See also:

RIVER

river, 21 M . S. by W. of Tacloban, the See also:

capital . Pop . (1903) 18,197 . Burauen is situated in a See also:

rich See also:

HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp-growing region, and hemp is its only important product . The See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language is Visayan .

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