CONTENTS 



NICARAGUA 



RUBBER INTERESTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA 



Witnessing a Waterspout ; Through the Lagoons to the Rub 

 ber Plantations; The Manhattan Plantation; Too Much 

 Water Detrimental to Castilloa ; The Rainfall; Sim Irons' 

 Rubber Groves and Cukra Plantations: Careful Tap- 

 ping; Four Hundred Thousand Castilloas in This 

 Vicinity a Conservative Estimate; A Scale that 

 Affects the Rubber Trees ; Samples Brought to 

 United States and Examined at th e Connect- 

 icut Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 New Haven ; Letters from State Entomol- 

 ogist, Connecticut, and Acting Chief 

 of Bureau of Entomology at Wash- 

 ington; Treatment Suggested for 

 Extermination of "the Pest. 



COSTA RICA 



A PLANTATION OF OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CASTILLOAS. 185 

 Bananas the Chief Product of the Country Interplanted with 

 Rubber in Many Instances ; Proper Drainage the Onlv Sal- 

 vation for Rubber Trees; Watery Latc.v; Interest 11 

 Rubber Planting in Costa Rica * Dates Back About 

 Twelve Years; Some' Plantations That are 

 Flourishing. 



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PANAMA 



FIRST LETTER 



To PANAMA IN THE RAINY SEASON . . 201 



Colon; Along the Panama Canal; Panama City; Toboga 



Island ; Quebro Outlaws ; Almost Wrecked ; Ashore at Last ; 



Castilloa Growing Within One Hundred Feet of the 



Shore ; Interesting Stories of the Pioneer. 



SECOND LETTER 



ROUGHING IT 21 ^ 



Camp Rio Negro; Castilloa Groves; Birds, Animals, and 

 Reptiles; Trips of Exploration; Coagulating Rubber with 

 Amole Juice; Native Rubber Gathering; Process of 

 Tapping and Tools Used; Trails Cut in Every Direc- 

 tion Followed by Long, Hard Tramps. 



