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averages about 100 inches & its continuous falling the year round gives the Malay country a favorable climate for Brazil rubber which requires [[strikethrough]] much [[/strikethrough]] rainfall continuously.  The rubber industry is quite new here, none of the plantation trees being over 15 years old.  Tin is also a chief export & the mines here are the greatest producers at present in the world.  Labor is scarce, so difficult to get that our steamer has been short handed & not yet unloaded in 4 days altho working night & day at discharging cargo.