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alone having shipped to foreign countries 1,690,520 gallons, 

 and sent in addition to other Indian ports 1493,756 gallons. 

 In 1886-87 the exports were 1,099,864 gallons, valued at 

 Ks. 13,24,589, and the imports 556,562 gallons, valued at 

 Es, 7,54,515. The bulk of the exports {viz. ,689,087 gallons) went 

 to the United Kingdom. The imports were mainly from Ceylon 

 (438,144 gallons), Bengal taking by far the largest proportion 

 {viz., 350,437 gallons). If to these facts an abstract of the 

 coasting traffic be added, some idea of the present position of 

 the cocoanut oil trade may be had. The imports coastwise 

 were in 1888, 167,486 gaUons, valued at Rs. 2,05,60,067 ; the 

 exports were 1,942,829 gaUons, valued at Rs, 20,74, 455. Of 



»orts, Bombay received 794,577, Burma 338,056, Bengal 

 131,463 gallons, and these (quantities were almost entirely 

 obtained from Madras. Cochin sent to Bombay 15,789 gal- 

 lons, and to Madras 13,188 gallons. The other items to make 

 up the total coastwise imports were unimportant. Local pro- 

 duction added to these imports would constitute the supply from 

 which the exports could be made, and in the case of Madras it is 

 noteworthy that that Presidency imported practically no 

 cocoanut oil, so that her exports to foreign countries and to 

 other Indian ports were drawn exclusively from local suppHes. 

 With the exception of the small amounts obtained from 

 Cochin, Bombay, &c., and some 6,000 gaUons from Ceylon and 

 other foreign countries, Madras imported no cocoanut oil. But 

 she exported 1,754,701 gallons, of which 1,008,621 went to 

 Bombay, 273,347 to Burma, 191,413 to Travancore, and 

 155,202 gallons to Bengal. But Bengal exported coastwise 

 8,648 and Bombay 3,454 gaUons. The Bengal exports went to 

 Burma, and the Bombay to Sind, Madras, Goa, Kattywar, &c. 

 Adding the foreign exports to the coastwise exports and deduct- 



18fi«^*^ °^ *^^ imports, we learn that Madras exported in 

 1888, 3,425,221 gallons— an amount which may be viewed as 

 the surplus over local consumption. Turning to Bengal and 

 Bombay, a very different state of affairs is found to prevail— the 

 imports exceed the exports, in Bengal by 313,009 gallons, and 

 m Bombay by 1,125,572 gallons. An enormous trade in 



