India rubber world . s, and in partnegroes from the Cauca. Of the formerwas Indolencia, whose strange com-plaining monkey call could be heardfor miles. He always kept it up whenalone in the woods, even if only a fewhundred yards from camp. Of the lat-ter was Cruz, a tall, loose jointed dar-key, freshly pitted by smallpox. Hewas the hunter and was equipped witha muzzle loading gaspipe gun witha percussion lock. It was worth goingI CASTiLLOA. miles to see him flush a turkey, locate the tree in which it alighted, steal within range, and then snapcap after cap until finally the gun went off and th
India rubber world . s, and in partnegroes from the Cauca. Of the formerwas Indolencia, whose strange com-plaining monkey call could be heardfor miles. He always kept it up whenalone in the woods, even if only a fewhundred yards from camp. Of the lat-ter was Cruz, a tall, loose jointed dar-key, freshly pitted by smallpox. Hewas the hunter and was equipped witha muzzle loading gaspipe gun witha percussion lock. It was worth goingI CASTiLLOA. miles to see him flush a turkey, locate the tree in which it alighted, steal within range, and then snapcap after cap until finally the gun went off and the turkeydropped, oftentimes getting away even then. As it would be impossible to examine carefully the whole ofthe 800 square miles in the month allotted to it, we first got thegeneral lay of the land, then laid out trips through typical sec-tions, estimated their areas and computed the number of Rio Negro camp (about 250 feet above the sea level)trails were cut north, south, east, and west. Then came long. i.^«i^ *^ 4( n^ ^ ,.:. ^ .ri-I-L-^^ RUBEER CUTTERS AT RIO NEGRO CAMP. COAGULATING RUBBER IN BALSA LOG. January i, 1905.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 111 \l P 1 m n m J 1 >^mH WANCHO IN GROVE OF CASTILLOA PLANTED BY INDIANS. and hard tramps, counting and measuring trees in typical blocks,and much questioning of native rubber cutters for a fair esti-mate of the conditions that obtained elsewhere. One fact soonimpressed itself upon me. The Caslilloa was certainly betteradapted to flourish there than any other of the native trees. Inspite of the war of extermination that had been previouslywaged against it, it was more abundant than any other singletree. It often happened that a group of from 40 to 50 could becounted from the trail, and it was a rare experience to go 25feet in the lower forest without seeing at least one tree. Whilemany of them were lofty, few were more than eight or teninches in diameter. The very largest tree that I saw far up ina
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