India rubber world . nt through the district in 1902,bringing back very little. Besides, much rubber at one timewas smuggled into the district from the Congo Free State, butthat has now been stopped by tne authorities of the latter. TheLandolphia vines here grew to a diameter of 4 inches. Thenatives not only cut all the vines, large and small, but dug upthe roots, until nothing remained. The Mweru natives seemto have had but one method of preparing rubber: The juiceis collected by the hand as it flows from the cuts and is thenrubbed on the body and limbs; the heat of the body and thespreading
India rubber world . nt through the district in 1902,bringing back very little. Besides, much rubber at one timewas smuggled into the district from the Congo Free State, butthat has now been stopped by tne authorities of the latter. TheLandolphia vines here grew to a diameter of 4 inches. Thenatives not only cut all the vines, large and small, but dug upthe roots, until nothing remained. The Mweru natives seemto have had but one method of preparing rubber: The juiceis collected by the hand as it flows from the cuts and is thenrubbed on the body and limbs; the heat of the body and thespreading out thus in a thin layer facilitate evaporation, for thejuice quickly coagulates enough to be scraped off and rolled upin the form of a ball, in which state it is always met with ; bythis method the maximum of purity is obtained. * * * To recur to North Western Rhodesia, the official report ofthe administrator for 1901-02 (recently printed) reports a richrubber district in the Bakaonde country, 100 by 75 miles in ex-. ROOT RUBBER PLANTS IN PORTtGUESE WEST AFRICA.[Between the Kuito and Kuando rivers, west of North Western Rhodesia. From Kuuene— Sambesi Expedition. 426 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [September i, 1903. rubber trees of two species, but no Carpodinus, so far as he collected on or near the west African coast. We find in our knows The rubber, prepared in small balls, is of good quality. books upwards of a dozen entries under the name of Benguela Very destructive methods prevail, including the tearing up of niggers. It is of a reddish brown, varying to a dark color, and the roots of Landolpkia. Many white traders are at work in of an excellent quality. the district, and large areas are reported in which the rubberhas been exterminated. The administration will try, however,to put a stop to these abuses. This district, by the way, is onthe eastern border of North Western Rhodesia, while that re-ported on above by Colonel Harding is on the western of preservati
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