2 2 Coffee Planting. 



January and April. Many Coolies remain two or 

 three years in Ceylon on the same estate, while 

 others will only remain one season : on most 

 estates it is usual for about one-third of the gang 

 to return to their country every year, in rotation. 

 The ferry by which they cross at Manaar (should 

 they take the North road homewards) is under 

 Government management ; and vessels are also 

 provided enabling them to return by Colombo to 

 Tuticorin, Negapatam, &c., on payment of a small 

 fare. The Legislature has enacted just and im- 

 partial provisions regulating minutely the relations 

 of these labourers and their employers, by which 

 both master and servant are greatly benefited. 



Cingalese labour is available for contract works, 

 such as felling and clearing, sawing, building 

 lines, stores, &c., and is thus far efficient and 

 satisfactory. The Cingalese are also excellent 

 carpenters. 



The coffee crops are principally cured at Co- 

 lombo, which is the port of shipment and possesses 

 a large number of curing establishments, with 

 machinery and appliances of a highly elaborate 

 description. 



The planting districts of SOUTHERN INDIA are 

 the Wynaad, Neilgherry districts, Coorg, and parts 

 of Mysore, Travancore, and the Shervaroy Hills. 



