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light the work is—namely, fifty or sixty cents in Singapore currency for tapping about three hundred trees a day. The rubber is coagulated at the factory with acid, and then washed and rolled in thin strips which go by the name of "crepe," but which as yet (1911) do not fetch so high a price as the rubber of the same species imported from the Amazon region.
