... workers who were almost literally buried in the forest. The owner of the tract of land recruited his workers in Belem or Manaus, loaned them the funds with which to buy not only essential items of equipment but also tinned foods. Each family of workers was then transported to a spot on the river bank accessible to the launch of the owner ... lives working in the forests doing the hardest and most trying kind of work, will now in three or four weeks spend several years' earnings, barely leaving them enough to buy a steerage ticket back to the woods. Here are a few figures which will thro...

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