Show x x i brazilian nut pickers victimized by buyers the business of gathering brazil nuts in the amazon jungle resolves itself into a skin shin game tor for the natives concerned when the he traders who follow the harvest arrive an ive with their boatloads of rum and trinkets near car a group of huts on the river hank bank the trade boat stops writes hugo flugo franklin in the hoston transcript anti and there the merchandise Is displaced pla eil in an hn improvise store the trader sits i it t like the spider in its web behind n 6 battery of jugs of rum surrounded by a few lleces of bright colored goods tobacco bags of salt cans of kerosene sometimes even cases of cheap beer the fiut blut pickers could make a good profit on the long trip up the river to tile the put nut forests forest sIf if only they would shun the trader but little by little their crop piles up lip beside the store at the end of the scipion season the poor natives owe money to tile the traders and unhappy and penniless offer to pay the debt by helping to load the nuts on the boat and work theli their way back to civilization |