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Caiiiii Loiiht, tslKjwiiiy (leiisf ''rain t'orfsl ' ' vegetation. 



toral material, and procured photographs of Colocasia and Xaii- 

 t/cosoma. 



At noon we took the train to Kahuku, and from there to Ho- 

 nohiki. arriving- at 5 :30 p. m. 



XEir USES FOR IXDIA RUBBER. 



India rubber is the Jacob, the supplanter, of the industrial 

 workk Rubber hose dispossessed hose of leather, the rubber-cov-- 

 ered golf ball drove out the "gutty." the motor banished the horse. 

 No industry or profession but has shown rubber supplanting some 

 time-honored object. Take, for example, the case of King David 

 as chronicled in the first book of Kings. "David was old and 

 stricken in years and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no 

 heat." Then his servants got a young maid who lay in his bosom 

 to warm him. This system presumably prevailed among elderly 

 kings until 1850 or thereabouts, when india rubber in the form of 

 hot water bottle supplanted the feminine heat supplied, and has 

 done so to a degree, ever since. 



Industrially it has insinuated itself everywhere, displacing wood, 

 metals, fabrics and only rarely making a new and original use for 

 its wonderfully adaptable self. It was its costliness only that kept 

 it from further encroachment. 



With rubber at a shilling or twenty-five cents a pound ( and 

 that is where it is said to be going), the great expansion in its 



