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RUBBER PLANTING JN CEYLON 
SIXTH LETTER— CONCLUSION. 
Rubber Plantations at Klang, in Selangor — Mr. Bailey and His Work- 
Distance of Planting — Age at Which Hevea Trees Yield— The Labor Ques- 
XI 0 N — Mr. Carey’s Planting— The Chinese as Rubber Planters — The Selan- 
gor Rubber Co. — Return to Singapore and Departure for Hong Kong. 
D URING the night spent on the Sappho, on the trip from Singapore 
to Selangor, we passed through a succession of heavy showers, 
but the sea was smooth and it was cool enough to be fairly 
comfortable. The meals aboard the boat were also good, and the native 
servants as intelligent as it paid them to be. At eight the next morning 
four year old “hevea, v klanang estate. 
we stopped at Port Dickson, where there is a good harbor, with an iron 
pier and a few bungalows and native houses set down in the jungle. 
After discharging freight we left, following the coast about three miles 
out. The land was low, wooded down to the water’s edge with an occa- 
sional break where a river discharged its muddy flood into the clear 
water of the Straits. 
In due time I reached Port Swettenham, where a short railroad 
journey took me to Klang. The station master then told me that I could 
