INDEX 



309 



Farinha. See Mandioca 

 Federated Malay Company, 220 

 Federated Malay States, growth of 

 trees in, 73 ; cost of planting 

 trees in, 166 ; export duties, 170, 

 176; rubber acreage, 172; fixed 

 charges for agricultural lands, 

 T 75 general revenue, 176 ; rain- 

 fall in, 178-80 ; nominal capital 

 of rubber- producing companies, 

 185 

 Federated Selangor Company, 182, 



220 



Felling and lopping (Ceylon), cost 

 of, on new plantations, 135, 

 140 

 (Malay Peninsula), 187 ; cost 



of, on new plantations, 188 

 (Sumatra), cost of, on new 



plantations, 241 

 (Java), 281 ; cost of, on new 



plantations, 269 

 Ficus-trees, 231, 264, 265, 289, 



290 

 "Fine hard Pard," 3, 4, 5, 34, 



101, 102, 103, 112, 297, 300 

 Fi scales, 57 

 Flies, 12 

 Fluoric acid, use of, for coagulation, 



193 



Fames, 168, 237, 284 

 Forest land (Ceylon), cost of, 135 

 (Malay Peninsula), cost of 



felling and weeding, 187 

 Formic acid, use of, for coagulation, 



193 



Fraca, 4, 5, 28, 101, 102, 103, 120 

 Fracafina, 4 



Freight rates (Amazon Valley), 99, 

 100, 101, 109, 127 



(Ceylon), 139 



(Malay Peninsula), 127, 194 



(Sumatra), 243, 257 



(Java), 275, 287 

 Freudweiler, Mr., 246 

 Fungus (Ceylon), 134 



Galle, 130 



Galvez, Colonel, 37 



Gardens, 30 



Gedong Estate, 219, 222 



Glen More, 262, 285 



Godefroy-Lebeuf, Mr., 265 



Golconda Company, 220 



Golden Hope Company, 220 



Goma, 3 



Goodyear, Charles, 2 



Gouge, 42, 69, 77, 80-8, 124; bent, 



42, 65, 67, 214 

 Grading (Amazon Valley), 100, 101, 



102, 298 



Grand Central Company, 136 

 Guapore, River, 6, 23 

 Guiana Mountains, II 

 Guttapercha, 290 



Hai Kee Estate, 222 

 Hamburg, cost of shipments to, 224 

 Henaratgoda, "No. 2" tree, 73, 

 146-8, 150, 154, 155, 158 ; Cey- 

 lon Government gardens at, 86, 



133, H6, 147, 158 

 Herring-bone system of tapping : 



full, 42, 65, 67, 77, 80, 82, 86, 



87, 123, 141 ; half, 42, 82 

 Heve. See Hevea 

 Hevea Brasilitnsis, 3, 28, 40, 164, 



167, 235, 264, 265, 298, 303. 



See also Preta, Branca, and 



Vermelho 



Hevea Guayanenszs, 3, 4, 120 

 Hevea Sprue -tana, 3, 4 

 Highlands and Lowlands Company, 



220 

 " Historia Universal de las Indias" 



of Orviedo y Valle, I 

 Holing, lining, and filling, cost of, 

 on new plantations (Ceylon), 



135, 137 



(Malay Peninsula), 188 

 (Sumatra), 241 

 (Java), 269 



Holland-American Company, 231 

 Hong- Kong, 182, 184, 267 

 Hornsby and Co., 137 

 Hornsby engines, 192 

 Hospitals (Ceylon), 161 



(Malay Peninsula), proportion- 

 ate cost of, to pound of rubber, 

 126 ; cost of, on new planta- 

 tions, 1 88 ; working costs of, 

 189, 221 ; provision of, 216 ; 



