Crossword-Solution: SERINGA 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

India-rubber is known throughout the province only by the name of seringa, the Portuguese word for syringe; it owes this appellation to the circumstance that it was only in this form that the first Portuguese settlers noticed it to be employed by the aborigines.

Martin (such dear, excellent people) to Wellington to meet the "Seringa-patam," homeward bound from that port; and I brought back from Wellington the Governor's sick wife and suite.

CAPTURE OF A YOUNG MACAW--THE POTTERY MANUFACTORY AND OTHER EMPLOYMENTS--THE INDIARUBBER OR SERINGA TREE--HOW UNCLE PAUL MADE OUR SHOES--THE IGUANA--CAPTURE A CURASSOW AND A TAPIR--MARIAN'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE LABARRI SNAKE--A LAUGHABLE SCENE.

The seringa, or India-rubber-tree, grows plentifully in some parts of Brazil, and many hundreds of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of shoes.

Although classed as `wild Indians,' the Jurunas are a mild race, friendly to the traders, and collect during a season considerable quantities of _seringa_ (Indian-rubber), sarsaparilla, as well as rare birds, monkeys, and Brazil-nuts--the objects of Portuguese trade.