try would not be as dense as that of Belgium
today.

Brazil could produce enough rubber to supply the whole world with
automobile tires for generations and never have to plant another rubber
tree to do it, that is, of course, if all her rubber forests could be
utilized. From a single Brazilian port is shipped one-fourth of all the
coffee used in the whole world. In a single Brazilian state there are
ten thousand coffee plantations that have more than fifty thousand trees
each and six hundred of them have more than one hundred thousand trees
each.

Brazil might be called the "jewel box" of the world. Her diamond fields
rival those of South Africa. Her mines produced a single stone that sold
for fifteen million dollars. One writer says: "Of all the fabulous tales
related of bonanza princes the palm for extravagance belongs to the
early mining days of Brazil, when horses were shod with gold, when
lawyers supported their pleadings before judges with gifts of what
appeared at first sight to be oranges and bananas, but proved to be
solid gold imitations, when guests were entertained at dinner with
pebbles of gold in their soup and when nuggets were the most convenient
medium of exchange in the money market."

Would you like to go nutting? Brazil has the greatest groves on earth.
Some of these nut trees grow to a height of a hundred and fifty feet and
have a girth of twenty feet, fifty feet up from the ground. A single
tree is said to produce as many as three tons of nuts during a season.
In the trees of Brazil are found sixteen hundred species of birds. There
are parrots galore and sixty-five varieties of woodpeckers have been
catalogued. One family of birds in Brazil are said to be devout
Christians as they never work but six days in the week.

One would naturally suppose that in Brazil the weather would be
extremely hot as the equator runs across the great Amazon valley. But
the nights are cool and sunstroke is unknown. Frost can be seen in the
highlands at certain times in the year. While fevers rage in parts of
the land, yet most of the country is conducive to good health. The very
dangerous parts of the Amazon valley are limited to certain parts of the
country.

Some years ago at a contest in Paris between twelve hundred children the
first prize for healthy appearance was given to a boy born in Manaos of
Amazonian parents. This city is in the very heart of the jungle in the
Amazon valley. There is one authenticated