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with that weitig from the Zambezi, would doubtless reach an 
astounding to 
“On the table ‘which follows it will be noted that the increase 
in the exports of ground-nuts in 1898 is considerable, and this is 
the more remarkable when it is understood that the natives in the 
b e 
m informed that a lar arge tices both of rubber and ground- 
nuts is annually lost to commerce, the natives being pikprbed in 
the act of conveying it to the coast and put to flight, while the 
result of their labours for, it may be, many months is left rotting 
on the po 
ve previously endeavoured to explain, the ae gage 
are colledtea entirely without supervision, and in qu ap- 
azard way, and sold to the exporter on the coast. P Nate swine I 
have been enabled to glean very few find their way to the United 
Kingdom, the bulk going to Hamburg and Rotterdam, whilst a 
certain quantity are despatched to Marseilles.” 
Return of silialama aa From below-mentioned Ports 
898. 
2 1897 an 
1897. 1898, 
Ports. 
Tons. Value. Tons. Value, 
a he £ sd, 
55 210 0 85 1,147 10 0 
ayer . «oe | 2,065 27. “a 10 0 5,190 70,065 0 0 
ilim: Pras ae Ms i, 33, 3345. 0° 0 6,397 86,359 10 0 
hinds (adiotoxtnatly «- | 2,000 0 4,500 60, 750 6 0 
Total ... se 1 6,590 88,965 0 0 16,172 218,322 0 0 
Total export during 1897 6,590 88,965 0 0 
Increase during 1898 ... | 9,582) 129,357 0 0 
Like the Indian trade, that of the Argentine Republic, never 
very large, has fallen since 1891; a table of the importations of 
Ee thence may he seen in Semler’s Tropische Agrikultur 
(ed. 2, ii., p. 461). 
Lastly, a hats about China. China, as stated above, an early 
home of Arachis in Asia, still grows large quantities, especially in 
the Yangitecknae © alley. Chief of all as a port of shipment, n ot 
only of nuts, but of oil, is Chinkiang, at the mouth of this river, 
and a large ” proportion of the exports finds its way to H 
Kong thence to be shipped to other countries 
in the same region s sends a sivas quantity of oil to Hong 
ow L 
export nuts and oil from China to foreign coun tries, but in small 
measure,and the effect on the European market remains very small, 
