1 kilo mandioka flour, 2½ milreis. 1 kilo coffee, 4 milreis. 1 kilo sugar, 3 milreis. 1 kilo beans, 3 milreis. 1 kilo rice, 2½ milreis. 1 kilo dried meat, 5 milreis. 1 kilo fresh meat, 4 milreis. 1 chicken, 30 milreis. 1 dozen eggs, 10 milreis. 1 bottle brandy, 8 milreis. 1 meter goods, 3 to 6 milreis. 1 woolen quilt, 120 to 140 milreis. 1 pair boots, 40 to 60 milreis. 1 cake washing soap, 3½ milreis. 1 piece fine soap, 5 milreis. 1 macheté, 14 to 22 milreis. 1 package matches, 3 milreis. 1 carbine, 200 milreis. 1 kilo powder, 28 milreis. 1 kilo shot, 4 milreis. [Illustration: THE MOUTH OF THE ACRE.] 1 pound sterling is now worth about 15 milreis, so that four shillings (about one dollar U. S.)=3 milreis. On the lower Acre, goods are much cheaper and they fall still lower down to Manáos, where many articles only cost one-third or one-fourth as much, or even less, but Manáos is nevertheless an expensive city. The large profits which fine rubber often yields, make all labor very dear. For this reason agriculture has developed but slowly and most food supplies must therefore be imported. Nevertheless cattle raising is constantly growing, stock being brought in from Bolivia. Bananas, the tubers of the sweet mandiola, beans and some vegetables are extensively grown, especially by Peruvians and Bolivians. Often the seringueiro will plant some bananas and cultivate a small patch of cleared land, but this is not favorably regarded by the proprietor. In some seringaes, even the marriage of the seringueiros is opposed; everything is directed towards obtaining the largest possible quantity of fine rubber. Although the Acre is not very full of fish, fishing, in the dry season, is attended with some success, which particularly benefits dwellers on the banks of the river. Hunting also, in some sections, furnishes residents with fresh meat. As animals of the chase may be enumerated, monkeys, Taca, Aguti, wild swine, small varieties of deer, sloths, tapirs, various wood fowl and ducks. Very different from the arrangements customary, as a rule, in the Acre, are the conditions in the Bolivian rubber districts, which for the most part are owned by a single proprietor, N. Suarez y Hermanos. He is said to produce 1,500 tons of fine rubber per year, and could produce more than four times the quantity if the entire forest concession, which is probably as large as South Germany, was all put in operation. One portion of this rubber forest is situated on the Acre, but the greater part includes the Southwestern tributaries of the Rio Madeira. In the properties on the Acre, the working methods are adapted to Brazilian customs, especially where Brazilian seringueiros are employed.