Stock


30lh Sept.
1886 1885


1884


1886 1885


1884


1HS6


1H85 1884


East Indian... Tons 404 504


564


610 508


629


1.30


257 417


Madagascar 05 58


99


73 63


92


•n


48 78


South American . . 13B 157


258


192 193


289


40


137 254


Mozambique 647 45)5


852


.582 581


817


284


232 434


African(otherkind5) 13 13


7


13 15


8


1


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— Barbel- Brother's Oireuhr, October 6i!i, iSS6.
Rubber in Brazil. — The following extract from a sketch of the Thysical
Geography of Brazil, lately published, gives a new idea of the importance of
rubber: — " Amongst the immense stores of valuable vegetable productions of
this great forest, the india-rubber tree figures pre-eminently. It exists in such
vast quantities, and the collection of the juice is so very lucrative, that it
has attracted to even the most remote rivers thousands of adventurous Brazilians.
Rubber is doing for the Amazons what gold did for Australia and California;
although most other industries on the Amazons are neglected and paralyzed,
rubber has enabled Para, Manaos, and other riverine cities to make unprece-
dented progress. It has covered thousands of miles of rivers with steamers,
and spread a vast population over vast areas that would otherwise have re-
mained dormant for many, many years."

Rubber in Brazil. — The Pari statistics not having come to hand, only
those for Amazonas are published, viz. : —

weight. value.
