D. Large earthenware pan into which the day's collection of latex is poured 
preparatory to coagulation 
"LE 
G. Earthenware stove under which a fire of palm nuts is kept up. The late 
on the paddle after exposure to the heat and pcc merging at the top, is is 
coagulated and assumes a firm texture and dark co 
FUTURE PROSPECTS. 
Mr. Churchill discusses these as follows (p. 26) :— 
“ Some people suppose that the supply of — rubber 
y become exhausted in the near eoe The most competent 
authorities are not at all of this opini but 1 torrente that the 
supply is inexhaustible, because the Hevea is continually being 
rtainly e us 
quality of rubber. Ther i special quotation for it in the 
foreign markets. This district, tabe is now exhausted, waid 
for about 40 years, thousands of men have tapped its trees. All 
new-comers flocked to Cametá to make their fortunes. There are 
still og districts that have not been t RUD d. 
* The area that is known to produce Para rubber amounts to at 
least 1,000,000 square miles. Further Renoir will, no doubt, 
show that this area is under-estimated. 
