seringals

Updated: May 25, 2025

His intention had been to join a "seringal," or caoutchouc concern, in which in those days a good workman could earn from five to six piastres a day, and could hope to become a master if he had any luck; but Magalhaes very truly observed that if the pay was good, work was only found in the seringals at harvest time that is to say, during only a few months of the year and this would not constitute the permanent position that a young man ought to wish for.

Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon