THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI 2 i 1 



its way to France and Belgium for consumption. A good 

 crop for export is set down at seventy million pounds. 



Logwood is second in Importance to coffee It is con- 

 sidered to be of the l>est quality. The amount of it exported 

 annually depends on the energy of the people in cutting 

 it. The average yearly exportation is about 178,000,000 

 pounds. 



Cocoa comes in as a sort of adjunct to coffee. While it 

 is found in several localities, it cannot be said to flourish 

 and abound. The bulk of it is grown on the western half 

 of the Tiburon peninsula. 



Cotton also, a product not usually found in the \Vest 

 Indies, is grown in Haiti. During the Civil War as much 

 as four and a half million pounds was grown ; but with the 

 fall in price the product was reduced to less than one and 

 a half million pounds for export in 1892. It grows with 

 extraordinary facility, requiring no culture whatever. It 

 does not grow on bushes, but on trees, which last several 

 years and produce two crops annually. It is of a fine silky 

 quality, and its culture might be made exceedingly profit- 

 able, as no country in the world is better adapted to its 

 growth. 



Besides the logwood, other woods are regularly exported, 

 including mahogany, lignum-vitse, bois-jaune (West Indian 

 sandalwood), and bayarondes. Mahogany is the most im- 

 portant of these and is of excellent quality. There has 

 been a marked falling off of this exportation since 1867, 

 due largely to the fact of the exhaustion of available mate- 

 rial within the limits of profitable transportation to the sea- 

 board. 



It must be confessed that the products of Haiti are 

 chiefly those which require little human toil, and that its 

 agricultural possibilities are hardly drawn upon. Coffee 

 LS, in fact, the only cultivated crop of importance, and 

 even many of the coffee-trees arc self-propagated. The 

 blacks upon attaining their freedom permitted the island 

 to return to its primeval state. In colonial times the island 



