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qualities of the different varieties of raw cacao as 

 follows : 



British West Africa (Accra) 655. per cwt. 



Bahia j 



Cameroons / 



San Thome 855. 



Congo I 



Grenada 



Trinidad } . 



Demerara 905. ,, ,, 



Guayaquil j 



Surinam 



Ceylon \ 



Java loos. ,, ,, 



Samoa 



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

 in the United Kingdom of some of the more important 

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

 striking change is the sudden rise when the Govern- 

 ment control was removed. All cacaos showed a sub- 

 stantial advance varying from 80 to 150 per cent, on 

 pre-war values. Further large advances have taken place 

 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 a 

 sojourn in equatorial regions is one of the most edu- 

 cative of experiences. In support of this I cannot do 

 better than quote Grant Allen, who regarded the 

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

 in educational importance I rank the advantage of 

 seeing human nature in its primitive surroundings, 

 far from the squalid and chilly influences of the tail- 

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

 all this formal modern life ; we must break away from 

 this cramped, cold, northern world ; we must find 

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



