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much harm as good in tyrannizing over the people, 

 and thus driving them away. Nevertheless, it is 

 certain that unless some system of police control 

 is established robbery will go on. 



The third measure is to outbid the Banyan, 

 though this could easily lead to unprofitable 

 warfare. 



The Banyan's power lies in the fact that he 

 is a trader and can offer the rubber collector the 

 twofold advantage of buying his product and 

 selling him goods that he requires. In order 

 successfully to compete with the Banyan it would 

 be necessary for the concessioner to adopt a 

 fourth preventive measure, and to lay in stocks 

 of goods at convenient centres with which to 

 barter for the rubber ; or, to go a step farther, to 

 open small stores to enable the collectors to pur- 

 chase their clothes, tobacco, salt, rice, and other 

 necessaries. A store possesses a great attraction 

 for the African, and no organization for the col- 

 lecting of rubber from a large forest based on 

 the purchase system could be considered complete 

 without one or more stores. 



In the foregoing brief sketch of the lines to 

 follow in the administration of a large rubber 

 forest I have left out of account altogether the 

 idea of collecting rubber by labourers paid fixed 

 wages per week or month, as unless each labourer 



