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qualities of the different varieties of raw cacao as 

 follows : 



British West Africa (Accra) 65s. per cwt. 



Bahia 



Cameroons 



San Thome 85s. ,, ,, 



Congo 



Grenada 



Trinidad 

 Demerara 

 Guayaquil 

 Surinam 



90s. 



I 



Ceylon 



Java 



Samoa ' 



The diagram on p. 1 13 shows the average market pri 

 in the United Kingdom of some of the more importa 

 cacaos before, during, and after the war. The mo 

 striking change is the sudden rise when the Goven 

 ment control was removed. All cacaos showed a suh 

 stantial advance varying from 80 to 150 per cent, o 

 pre-war values. Further large advances have taken plac. 

 in the early months of 1920. 



The Call of the Tropics. 



Many a young man, reading in some delightful book 

 of travel, has longed to go to the tropics and see the 

 wonders for himself. There can be no doubt that 2 

 sojourn in equatorial regions is one of the most edu- 

 cative of experiences. In support of this I cannot d( 

 better than quote Grant Allen, who regarded th> 

 tropics as the best of all universities. " But above al 

 in educational importance I rank the advantage oi 

 seeing human nature in its primitive surroundings, 

 far from the squalid and chilly influences of the tail- 

 end of the Glacial epoch." ..." We must forge 

 all this formal modern life ; we must break away fron 

 this cramped, cold, northern world ; we must fini 

 ourselves face to face at last, in Pacific isles or Africai 



