186 
The imports of Germany, which between 1880 and 1887 
(Uhlitzsch, /.c., p. 397) averaged 8,595,000 kilogrammes have 
increased so that during the last three years they have been :— 
Year, | Kilogrammes, 
1896 12,390,600 
1897 15,187,800 
1898 12,776,100 
Italy, too, has increased her imports of oil-seeds, but no special 
statistics for ground-nuts are available. 
SUPPLY OF EUROPE. 
Gambia, which sent 13,200 cwt. to Marseilles in 1837, was 
sr ao Big: aceghe in 1840 with a small shipment. The increase 
n the rts then became rapid. In 1860 Gambia exported to 
the vale of £79,612, and Sierra Leone to £34,514 ; in 1870 these 
two colonies exported the one to the value of £121,329, the other 
to £95,605 ; and the trade became = most important one of this 
part of Africa, and continues to be 
Angola ogg into competition with Gambia but heavy taxation 
checked and partly destroyed the a trade (Monteiro, op. 
cit., i., p. 133, aad Ficalho, op. cit., p. 139). 
The Indian n trade, owing to the 1 ength of the journey round the 
Cape, took no great dimensions until after the o opening of the 
Suez Canal in 1869. Then came a rapid development, Pondi- 
cherry being the chief centre. Indigo had been a leading 
concern of this French settlement, but the natives who dealt in it 
suddenly discovered that Ara chis offered a better market, and for 
of them (Trop. Agriculturist, iii., p. 12: vi., p. 31). In 1891 space 
was totally inadequate to m eet the tretsened traffic, despite srs use 
of “twelve new export sheds and ten large naval coal go-down 
(Trop. a weep X., p. 867). 
os ree-quarters of the nuts exported from Pondicherry 
in the ‘British territory adjacent to the French 
paltichiedte Nuts a hoe found an outlet through sae and 
pro h Bo 
tatistics are available of the exports from British India, but 
not = Pondicherry ; under heen _ciroumstances ot is aid 
subsequent The mouse are fiction from Subba Rao’s paper 
> eee Silat ‘and from the Revenue Report on the crop in 
Madras (G.0., Nos. 773, 773a, p. 7). 
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