EVEN THE CARTS IN SUMATRA ARE THATCH-ROOEED 



Central Africa has not a greater variety of animal life than Sumatra. Elephants, tigers, 

 myriad apes and monkeys, two-horned rhinoceroses, and the most gorgeous butterflies in the 

 world are to be found in the magnificent jungles of the island. The plant life is amazing 

 in its luxuriance. Some varieties of bamboo shoot up like giant stalks of asparagus, at the 

 rate of a foot or more a day, and in three or four months are waving their fronded tops 

 above centuries-old monarchs of the forest. 



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PRIMITIVE TRANSPORTATION" AND MODERN COMMUNICATION 



SUMATRA. NOTE THE TELEPHONE WIRES 



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