INDEX 



307 



Chaffee and Haskins, 2 

 Changkat Salak Estate, 219, 222 

 Children as labourers (Amazon 



Valley), 57-8, 122 

 (Ceylon), 138, 141, 161 

 (Malay Peninsula), 204 

 (Java), 282 



Chinese (Malay Peninsula), 167, 

 i/o, 173. 182, I95> 206, 207, 

 208, 209, 212, 215 

 (Sumatra), 231, 249, 250, 251 

 (Java), 276, 277 



Cicely Company, 182, 219, 220, 222 

 Cinchona, 130 ; collection of bark, 



Clay, use of, as check to borer, 49 



Cleaning, cost of, on new planta- 

 tions (Sumatra), 241 

 (Java), 269 



Cleanliness : importance of, in pre- 

 venting tree disease, 48 ; lack of, 

 arrests development, 74 ; not 

 practised by collectors, 75, 93 ; 

 attention given to, in East, 124 ; 

 none in Brazil, 124; dependent 

 on supervision, 210 



Climate (Amazon Valley), 10, 92, 



99 



(Java), 274 

 Coagulation (Amazon Valley), 



method of, 91-4, 125 

 (Orient), method of, 124 

 (Ceylon), 141 ; experiments to 



produce, by smoking process, 



143 

 (Malay Peninsula), process, 



192-3 



(Sumatra), process, 246 

 Coast (beri-beri), 179 

 "Coast advances" (Ceylon), 136 

 Coast-town hospital, 179 

 Coca, 273 

 Coconuts (Ceylon), 133 



(Malay Peninsula), 173 

 (Java), 273, 276 



Coffee, decadence of industry (Cey- 

 lon), 129, 130 

 (Malay Peninsula), 166, 167, 



177 



Coffee, Liberian (Sumatra), 254, 

 257 



| Coffee, Quillou (Java), 281, 285 I 

 Robusta (Malay Peninsula), 

 212 



(Sumatra), 229, 236-7, 



238, 252 



(Java), 265, 277, 281, 285 

 Uganda (Java), 281, 285 

 Collection (Ceylon) : working costs 

 of, 137 estimated future, 139 

 (Malay Peninsula), proportion- 

 ate cost of, to pound of rub- 

 ber, 126 ; working costs of, 

 189, 221 ; estimated future, 

 223 

 (Sumatra), working costs of, 



242 ; estimated future, 256 

 (Java), working costs of, 271, 



272, 286 



Collectors (Amazon Valley): poverty 

 of, 28 ; lack of supervision over, 

 29 ; allotment of cstradas to, 31 ; 

 rule as to overhead tapping, 32 ; 

 employment of, 38 ; careless use 

 of machadinho by, 48 ; their free- 

 dom from restraint, 55 ; temporary 

 partners with owners, 56, 75, 

 122 ; supervision of their work 

 entrusted to fiscales, 57 ; cheated 

 by regatones, 58 ; accustomed to 

 supply working implements, 65 ; 

 description of their work, 66; 

 careless as to cleanliness, 75 ; 

 hardships of, 75-76 ; precarious 

 position of, 88 ; monthly require- 

 ments of, analyzed, 89 ; compared 

 with Oriental tappers, 91 ; hard- 

 ships of, in coagulating-shed, 92 ; 

 practice as to delivery of rubber, 

 96; cost of clothing, etc., 1 08 

 Colombia, 6, 27, 34 

 Colombians, 13 



Colombo, 130, 138, 141 ; charges 

 per pound from, to London, 139; 

 exports from, in 1913, 164 ; esti- 

 mated, for 1914-1919, 165 ; price 

 of rubber in, compared with Lon- 

 don, 191 

 Colombo Commercial Company, 



137 



Colonization, difficulties of (Amazon 

 Valley), 9 



