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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1910. 



Floating Docks and Aerial Cables. 



Moving Cases oe Rubber by Aerial Cables. 



CONDITIONS OF LIVING IN MANAOS. 



I did not find the heat too oppressive. It got up into the 90's 

 sometimes, and there was the usual fight against mildew, which 

 proved it to be somewhat damp. Mine host, his wife, and the 

 baby all came down with severe colds while I was there, which I 

 believe was wholly due to the dampness. I do not expect to 

 make Manaos my permanent residence, alhough one might do 

 worse, but if I do, my sleeping quarters will be on the second 

 floor and not on the ground floor, for that is where one takes 

 cold, and a cold once taken in the tropics is as hard to cure 

 as a sprained disposition. 



Another thing, every window and door in my home should 

 have screens, even if none other in the city followed suit. The 

 yellow fever mosquito is a city dweller, and if he was driven 

 out of Panama by screening and a little sanitation, he can be out 

 of Manaos. The government is alive to it, but the people, for- 

 eigners and all, seem indifferent. While I was there the Inspector 

 Sanitario sent out a circular illustrated with pictures of mos- 

 quitos, which was passed from house to house. It was, how- 

 ever, in Portuguese, and I was unable to decide whether the 

 Culex, kneeling in prayerful attitude, or the Anopheles, standing 

 on its head as if about to turn a joyful somersault, was the one 

 to avoid. 



GRADING FINE RUBBER IN A MANAOS WAREHOUSE. 



