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as much care as the cultivation of the tree, and 

 the cacao which comes from the estates has an un- 

 varied constancy of quality, not infrequently giving 

 100 per cent, of perfectly prepared beans. It is largely 

 due to this that the cacao from this small island occu- 

 pies such an important position on the London market. 

 The cacao from San Domingo is known commer- 

 cially as Samana or Sanchez. A fair proportion is of 

 inferior quality, and is little appreciated on the 

 European markets. The bulk of it goes to America. 

 The production in 1919 was about 23,000 tons. 



AFRICAN CACAO. 



In the map of Africa the principal producing areas 

 are marked. Their production in 1918 was as follows : 



CACAO BEANS EXPORTED. 



Metric Tons. Percentage of 



World's production. 



Gold Coast (British) 66,343 24-5 



San Thome JQ, 1 ^ 7'i 



Lagos (British) 10,223 3' 8 



Fernando Po 4,220 r6 



Cameroons ^250 0*4 



Togo i ,000 0*4 



Belgian Congo 875 0*3 



African Total 103,096 tons 38*1 per cent. 



British Africa 76,566 tons 28*3 per cent. 



THE GOLD COAST (Industria floremus) 

 Accrd^Cacao. 



The name recalls stories of a romantic and awful 

 past, in which gold and the slave trade played their 

 terrible part. Happily these are things of the past ; so 

 is the " deadly climate." We are told that it is now no 

 worse than that of other tropical countries. According 

 to Sir Hugh Clifford, until recently Governor of the 

 Gold Coast, the " West African Climatic Bogie " is a 



