India rubber world . rails, or that the grass had grown up and covered both witha slippery tangle, nor was it the clayey mud that often roseflush with the rail tops, but it was the combination of all thesethat tired us out ere we had gone very far. Still, we had nothought of backing out, and so plodded steadily on, ourfeet clogged with mud, our packs on our shoulders, wondering if luck would send the con-struction train to our assist-ance. Not that the trip waswithout its day was gorgeous, andmy companion, botanist andenthusiast as he is, talked ofthe trees and plants in a wa
India rubber world . rails, or that the grass had grown up and covered both witha slippery tangle, nor was it the clayey mud that often roseflush with the rail tops, but it was the combination of all thesethat tired us out ere we had gone very far. Still, we had nothought of backing out, and so plodded steadily on, ourfeet clogged with mud, our packs on our shoulders, wondering if luck would send the con-struction train to our assist-ance. Not that the trip waswithout its day was gorgeous, andmy companion, botanist andenthusiast as he is, talked ofthe trees and plants in a waythat would make one forgetany sort of hardship. Speaking of the forest, oneof the most conspicuous treesis a sort of a ban-yan, which has allthe idiosyncrasiesof thar tree of many trunks,and grows to a great size. Itis a species of Finis which hasnot as yet been identified, butis probably the Ficus Benja-mina. On tapping it gives a FOREST TREES- INTERIOR OF TEMPORARY OFFICE. July i, 1903.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 333. PL \\TA rio> I I: \ R PLANTING, AFTER THE certain amount of latex, but of a very sticky nature, and prob-ably of no value. There are also a great many mahogany trees,but in the former lumbering operations the larger of them havebeen cut out, and while there are many of them that wouldsquare perhaps twelve or fourteen inches, there are not so manywhich would go up to eighteen inches, which used to be the oldtime test. At the same time, mahogany is so plentiful that manyof the bridges across the streams on the forest trails are madeof squared mahogany logs, one or two of them laid side by side,and mahogany furniture is very common in the planters homefurnishings. There is also considerable lignum vitce, and onthe track we were then walking, it was often used for cedar is also quite abundant, and is one of the valuablewoods. In regard to trees, the old resident, and sometimes the semi-old one, is very apt to pointout the rubber tree in its nat-
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