SYNOPSIS. 



OcrxwARD Bound Pages 7-15-. 



Voyage — ^Rubber Brokers and the Plantation Industry — 

 Fellow Passengers — An Incident — Rubber Tiling on Steamers 

 — Rambong in Sicily — ^Climatic Conditions suitable for 

 Para Rubber — Approaching the Rubber Zone — Tackiness 

 and Tropical Heat. 



Cevlo.x Pages 15-19. 



Arrival at Colombo — Ceylon and Rubber Developments — ■ 

 Looking Back — -Planters and Rubber Growers' Association — 

 Rubber Acreage in Ceylon and the East — Facilities for 

 Acquiring Land — One View of the Plantation Industry. 



Ceylon ... Pages 19-42. 



A Tour in the Kalutara .District — Adventures by the Way — 

 Rubber and Paddy along the Neboda Road — Tapping Systems 

 Compared — ^Girth of Trees Tapped — Raw Rubber Prices and 

 Planters — A Calculation of the Effect of id. in Price — The 

 Oldest Rubber Trees in Ceylon — Effect of Tapping Old Trees 

 — Effect of Pricking on Old Trees — Can a Para Tree be Easily 

 Killed ? — Manufacturers and Plantation Supplies — Large Plan- 

 tations — Native Compounds — Their Value for Isolation — Field 

 and Factory Work on Culloden — Gikiyanakande — ^Vogan 

 Estate — Another Estate — Cost of Rubber Production in Ceylon 

 — Standardization of Monthly Accounts — Drying With and 

 Without Vacuum Dryers — ^Yield of Rubber- — Annual Increase 

 in Output — Coagulation in the Field — Rate of Bark Renewal in 

 Ceylon — Paring and Pricking in Ceylon — ^Labour in Ceylon 

 — The Tamil — Sinhalese — Impressions of Ceylon. 



Malava Pages 43-55- 



Bound for Penang — In the Island of Penang — Rubber Plants 

 in Penang — The Straits Settlements — ^Wellesley Province — 



