3 i 8 Voyage of the Novara. 



ployment. Here also there is felt in the workshops tlie same 

 clammy, sultry atmosphere. A workman can make about 150 

 packages of 25 cigarettes, or 3750, per diem, for which he is paid 

 four reals * (I5. 7d. English). Most extraordinary is the rapid- 

 ity, bordering almost upon the magical, with which the cigar- 

 illos are counted, divided into packages, bound up, and stamp- 

 ed. The unpractised vision of the visitor is hardly able to 

 follow the celerity of motion of the workman's hands and 

 fingers. 



Besides the two factories already mentioned, there is yet a 

 third cigarillo manufactory in Cavite, which emj^loys 4000, 

 and a fourth in Malabon, employing 5000, workwomen. The 

 quantities annually produced by these various manufactories 

 amount to about 1,200,000,000 cigarillos. If we deduct the 

 numerous holidays of the Church, on which no work is done, 

 we shall find that about 5,000,000 must be made daily. 

 Grovernment buys up each year from the planters the entire 

 crop of tobacco at a fixed price, and exports it partly in leaf, 

 but for the most part in cigars, the right to manufacture 

 which no one possesses but the Grovernment. The monopoly 

 of tobacco was, after great difficulties had been encountered, 

 first introduced into the Pliilippines in 1787 by Don Jose 

 Basco, the then Governor-general. 



The greater part of the cigars are shipped to the East In- 

 dies, the islands of the Malay Archipelago, and North America, 

 only a small quantity in proportion coming to Europe for sale. 



* 8 reals=l Spanish piastre^S^. 1|^/. at par; hence 1 recil=:4.71 870(/. EngUsh. 



