The immediate result "a frantic rush to the rubber forests and a mad scramble to share in this new source of speculative wealth. ... The rubber was gathered by workers who were almost literally buried in the forest. ... From each isolated camp the gatherer cut for himself a path or Estrada through the forest, leading to perhaps as many as two hundred rubber trees . ... Here are a few figures which will throw some light on the profits and expenses connected with the running of an average rubber estate. ... There were rich rubber forests beyond the limits of navigation along the souther...

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The origin of the Santo Daime religion The Santo Daime religion emerged in the Amazonian basin in the early 1920s when Raimundo Irineu Serra, a rubber tapper from the Amazon, was walking in the forest and was visited by a feminine spirit claiming to be a representation of the Virgin Mary and an embodiment of Mother Earth. She told him that he should remain in the forest, refrain from eating and then drink a hallucinogenic brew called Ayahuasca, which he had already experimented with among the indigenous peoples of the jungle. ... When Mestre Irineu died in 1971, the religion split into three ...

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The native people of Brazil lived in the forests and along the rivers, hunting, fishing, and gathering fruits and nuts. ... Forty percent of the land is under the Amazon Rain Forest. ... Homes for the poor are shacks of cardboard and corrugated iron, furnished with the barest essentials and mostly without water, light, or sanitation. ...

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