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450 to 680 lbs. each, were taken from ;the hold of the vessel, 

 landed, weighed, marked, and then either put on trollies to be 

 carted away immediately or arranged on the floor of the dock- 

 shed. 



Fruit.— Barrels of Apples, each weighing about lj- cwt.. were 

 seen being landed from a Cimard Liner. The cargo included 

 27,000 such barrels, shipped from Boston, U.S.A. In a dock 

 warehouse were large quantities of oranges and onions in casks. 

 grapes in small barrels, and raisins and almonds in small boxes 

 imported from Spain. In addition were noted some careful h 

 packed crates of "Jamaica Selected" oranges, each crate con- 

 taining 200 to 270 fruits. These crates were held securely to:, ther 

 by means of iron hooping. 



Miscellaneous Products.— In the dock warehouses a great 



variety of miscellaneous products were to be seen. The following 

 from West Africa were recognised :— Gum Copal, in casks, from 

 the Oil River District ; Rubber, in casks, from Free Town. Sierra 

 Leone ; large quantities of Maize from Lagos. Maize is a com- 

 paratively new import, dating practically from two or three years 

 back ; the industry is one of increasing importance. The Maize 

 is imported in sacks of If cwt. each ; on being landed it is 

 usually put into the buyers' sacks, of 240 lbs. to the sack. In 

 addition were seen Lagos Bass or Raffia, esteemed the best variety 

 shipped from the West Coast, in bales of 2 cwt. 1 qr. 16 lbs. each ; 

 Monrovian Bass or Piassaba, in loose packages; Palm Kernels 

 from Lagos, in bags of uniform weight, 1 cwt. 1 qr. each : 

 Elephant Berry Coffee from Liberia ; Ebony from the Gaboon : 

 Cotton seed, in sacks, from Lagos : Ginger from Sierra Leone : 

 the inner bark of the Baobab, probably for paper-making, in bales 

 held together by hoop-iron ; Gum Copal from Sierra Leone ; Baa 

 seed (Bassia sp. r) from Grand Bassam : Palm Oil from Bathurst 

 and from St. Paul de Loando, in casks of 15 cwts. each : casks of 

 Palm Oil scrapings from the holds of vessels ; Cocoa from the 

 Gold Coast, in bags averaging 1 cwt. 1 qr. each : Decorticated 

 Ground Xuts, perhaps from the Niger ; such Ground Nuts are 

 usually shipped to Oporto, Rotterdam or Hamburg. Fromfthe 

 Niger were observed the following :— Gum Kino, in cases': 

 Gambia Pods, Unginned Cotton, Kola and Beni Seeds, in sacks: 

 also Shea Butter, in casks weighing 10 cwt. 1 qr. 1 lb. each. 

 Beside these imports were to be seen large quantities of the 



be used in caulking: Palm Oil casks. 



West 



observed : — Rice meal, in 



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following, all shipped from Singapore :— Rattans, in two sizes ; 



extract 



by 8 ins, and weighing about 1 cwt. each ; Gambier, in packages 



like the preceding, each weighing from 1 to 2 cwt. 



TIMBERS. — Of the various woods shipped from the West Coast 

 of Africa as Mahogany, those at present most in favour come from 

 Lagos and Benin. From a copy of the "Annual Circular for 

 Mahogany, &c." kindly supplied by Messrs. Edward Chaloner and 



