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primitive specimens of naval architecture, simply a rudely 
constructed barge of from 8-10 tons. . . . The crew generally 
seroons of indigo or 500 hides or 8 tons of lo wood. . . . Asma 
be imagined the bongo is not easily moved, in the wet season 
for example the average passage up the San Juan alone is 
14 days; they, are often three weeks from Granada to Grey- 
town.’’t 
According to Roset though *‘ Haematoxylon campechianum he 
supposed to be the logwood of commerce, the above species is re 
exported under that name and has been for many years. = 
Mexico he further states the wood known as ‘“‘ Brazil’ is largely 
used throughout the country as a dye-wood, giving a dark 
brown or red colour, used to colour tomales, mats, and Agave 
fibre. It is not now so extensively exported from the West Coast 
as formerly, but it is one of the chief exports from Altata, while 
much wood is shipped from Piaxtla and also from Mazatlan. 
The wood from Altata goes chiefly to Havre and Hamburg, ships 
extensive cutting it is hard to find specimens of any size along 
the coast, but in some of the hot interior valleys large shrubs or 
even small trees are to be seen. Fs 
_In Venezuela the wood of this species is said to be scarce an 
little exported—51,342 kilos were shipped from Venezuelan ports 
m 1882-1883. The scarcity is attributed largely to ‘ the 
: Se eR a 
* «The Gate of the Pacific ” (1863), p. 291. i ’ 
t On the Atlantic side connected by the San Juan with Lake rg ‘ 
ake ig on Useful Plants of Mexico in Contr. from the U.S. Nat. Herb..v. 
Pp. 238. 386) 
§ kirnst, La Exposicion Nacional de Venezuela en 1883, i. (Caracas, 1886), 
