Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Rubber Industry in Brazil and the Orient
The amazing incidents connected with the rapid pro gress of the rubber industry in Ceylon and Malaya since 1908 partake more of the character of a fairy tale than the plain facts of a nineteenth-century ordinary com mercial undertaking. From the position of a constant struggle for a bare existence, owners of plantations advanced suddenly to an era of most unprecedented prosperity. Poverty gave place to wealth, and in all directions the conditions of life were transformed with an almost incredible swiftness.
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