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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 
for cost in Ceylon would be nearer actual practise, while Para rubber 
costs, landed in Para or Manaos, often forty, fifty, and sixty cents a 
pound, the figures being dependent upon the section that it comes from. 
As a matter of fact, the Tamil coolie whom the planters employ is 
not a high salaried individual. His pay averages about thirteen cents a 
day, United States money. To this is added the coolie '“lines ,, or houses 
which are free of rent to him, as is also medical attendance. The 
planters keep no stores usually, but they do buy rice and furnish it at 
“hEVEA” PLANTED l8,®9 ; PHOTOGRAPHED I 9 O 3 . 
cost to their laborers, the allowance being one bushel a week for a man, 
and three-quarters of a bushel for a woman. 
It was while sitting on the cool flags under the broad porch at 
the Harrison bungalow that the subject of snakes came up. Both mv 
host and his friend acknowledged that cobras were very plentiful, and 
that they had a great liking for cool bungalows, which they sought to 
enter whenever they thought they could safely do so. They said it was 
a very rare thing, however, for a white man to be bitten bv one. But 
the natives are often bitten, and sometimes fatally. The Singalese won't 
