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We then proceeded to the caoutchouc-tree, and here I determined to rest awhile, to collect some of the valuable gum. I had brought some large gourd-shells with me for the purpose. I made incisions in the trees, and placed these bowls to receive the gum, which soon began to run out in a milky stream, and we hoped to find them filled on our return.
"L'Encuerado has already given him a lecture about it." "Still I am very much afraid that 'Verdet' and 'Janet' will come to an untimely end." While we were resting, Lucien and his friend went off to examine a caoutchouc-tree. The boy came back much disappointed. "Your India-rubber-tree isn't worth much," said he to Sumichrast, showing him a thick white liquid, which he had just collected.
If a field came to be abandoned, this parasite, as much despised as the thistle or the nettle, took possession of it immediately. One tree seemed lacking in this forest, which ought to be very common in this part of the new continent; it was the caoutchouc-tree.
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