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British West Africa (Gambia Government Gazette, March 6th, 
1909, p. 125), the following account is given of the extraction of 
Palm Wine :— 
“ The extraction of wine from the Oil Palm has probably much 
to do with the diminutive size of the fruits in the ambia, 
to the next ripening head on the tree. The terminal shoot is not 
mjured, so that although the tree must be greatly weakened from 
THe O1n Pam outrsipe West AFRICA. 
The Oil Palm is also found on the N.W. shore of Lake Nyasa, 
in Zanzibar, and in the Island of Pemba. From the latter place, 
‘in 1903, 104,30! Ibs. of kernels were exported to the value of £330 
‘and in 1904 the value of the kernels exported was ‘£384 (Cons, 
Rep. Ann., No. 3263, p. 18, No. 3716, p. 9). Since 1904, however, 
no returns of palm kernels appear to have been made for the 
Island of Pemba. The Oil Palm has been introduced into most 
of the tropical botanical gardens, but except in the case of some 
plantations in British North Borneo, no efforts appear to have 
n made to cultivate. this palm outside West Africa. 
‘In August last a copy of a despatch from the Governor of 
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