_Price _In _In the _Price to in Rio_ Pará_ Acre_ Rubber-collector_ 5 alqueires of farinha[12] 20 27$500 100 175 40 kilos of sugar 14 26 45 80 25 kilos of coffee 24 25 34 100 128 kilos of lard 16 20 36 100 50 kilos dried meat 40 40 77 150 50 kilos of feijão (beans) 12.500 15 51 100 16 pounds of tobacco 11 22 53 120 5 gallons of kerosene 4 4 11 30 Half-sack of salt 1 1$500 8 15 40 kilos of rice 20 20 36 100 Half-case of soap 3 4 11.500 20 30 litres cachaça (rum) 15 15 46 105 3 boxes cartridges 24 30 33 45 Medicines, clothes, etc. 120 130 180 250 ——————— ———— ——————— —————— Total 324$500 380$ 721$500 1.390$ The price of an outfit for the season thus varies from about 324 milreis in Rio to 1390 milreis in the forest, or between, say, 80 and nearly 350 dollars. If the collector in the course of his season’s work produces four hundred and fifty kilos of rubber, worth, at a good price of about five milreis, 2:250$000 (two and a quarter contos, or about five hundred and sixty U. S. dollars at 1916 exchange), he has left only seven hundred and fifty milreis to carry him through the rest of the year, and to support his family back in Ceará: but even this modest sum is reduced by the river freight of the rubber before it is marketed at Manáos or Pará, three hundred reis per kilo; rent of the _seringal_, commission to the aviador, and frequently freight of the _pelles_ from the interior of the forest to the water, which items are likely to add up to another four or five hundred milreis.