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India rubber, which has so many uses, comes chiefly from the Selvas of Brazil. It is the sap of the India rubber tree.

Man'-i-oc, or cassava, supplies the natives with a coarse kind of bread.

6. The cultivated products are such as belong to the Torrid and Temperate zones. As in Mexico, so here we find that different crops are raised according as the farms are among the mountains or in the lowlands.

Among the mountains and in the southern part of the continent, wheat and other products of the Temperate zone are cultivated.

In the lowlands sugarcane, corn, cotton, cacao and coffee trees, manioc, pineapples, and bananas grow in profusion.

Maté (mah'tay), or Paraguay tea (pah-rah-gway&apos;), is widely used by the people of South America. It is the leaf of a tree which is something like our holly.

The coffee which we use comes chiefly from Brazil. That country produces more than one-half of all that is raised in the world.