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Export of Oilin Gallons from Madras Presidency. 
—- Foreign. | Coastwise. | Total, 
Average of 5 : dav ending 1887-88 ... 6456 266,925 273,381 
1890-91 ... 7126 46,919 54,045 
é 36 po wees-94 ... 7907 14,997 22,904 
és 1896-97 ... 1459 609,790 611,249 
tas ending 1897-938 ... 3049 508,254 511, "303 
It seems that to meet the demand in Marseilles in 1898 large 
shipments were made of undecorticated ~~ from Africa, and 
judged by the pele in cultivation on that continent it is ents: 
that the demand may be fully met. The pani bal tea of the West 
Coast of Africa are not yet fully developed. W. W. A. Fitzgerald 
remarks (Travels in Coast Lands British E. Africa, p. 213) that 
ae soil of the coast lands is just what is required for its cultiva- 
tio 
Hxact information on the tk pe of the trade of nae side of 
Africa has hitherto been wanting, and in view of the evidently 
considerable possibilities the following abstracts from a peice by 
2B M.’ 8 Consul at Mozambique will be of interest 
“The ground-nut is collected by natives, by whom it is largely 
sed as an article of food; it is also sold by them in great 
quantities to the Indian merchants or to the holders of Prazos 
(i.e., tenants), by whom it is either passed on to European firms 
on the coast or exported independently. 
“From such statistics as I have been ‘enabled to obtain from the 
three first-named places that Quilimane is by far the most 
foliose of them in relation to this commodity ; but although, 
sud diidtely: I have been unable to procure any precise infor- 
This will be the re readily understood, per si when it is 
explained that Chinde. receives the entire trade of the extensive 
Zambezi valley, om similarly, all the articles of import received, 
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and west, are shipped from Chinde. It will, therefore, be 
seen that the amount of ground-nuts exported from the two 
places is very large. Moreover, there has been established at 
Quilimane during the past year an extensi p and oil 
manufactory, which possesses certain profitable atc for the 
manufacture of those two articles in the province and elsewhere. 
As these goods are manufactured entirely from d-nut d 
pon nuts an 
other her locally produced oil seeds, it follows that a considerable 
e the number of tons used locally in = th ee and oil 
, the amount of this produce collected in the district, 
