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including pasturage, 218,161 acres. In Java and 

 Madura, last year (1864), tlie cultivated fields and 

 the groves of cocoa-nut palms covered an area of 

 2,437,037 acres. In Cuba, from 1853 to 1858, tlie 

 yearly exports were from 27,000,000 to 32,000,000 of 

 dollars, and the imports of about the same value. In 

 Java, last year, the imports amounted to 66,846,412 

 guilders (26,738,565 dollars) ; and the exports to the 

 enormous sum of 123,094,798 guilders (49,237,919 

 dollars). During 1864 twenty-four ships arrived from 

 the United States, of 12,610 tons' capacity, and three 

 sailed for. our country, of a united capacity of 2,258 

 tons.* 



Both of these great islands abound in forests, 

 that yield large quantities of valuable timber. Java 

 ftu^nishes the indestructible teak, from which the 

 Malays and Javanese fitted out a fleet of three hun- 

 dred vessels that besieged Malacca, two years after 

 it had fallen into the hands of the Portuguese. In 

 like manner the Spaniards, between 1724 and 1796, 

 built udth timber from the forests of Cuba an armada 

 that numbered one hundred and fourteen vessels, 

 carrying more than four thousand guns. From the 

 Cuban forests come the indestructible lignnon-vike^ 

 and the beautiful mahogany. Those jungles shelter 

 no wild animals larger than dogs, but these in Java 

 are the haimts of wild oxen, tigers, one large and two 

 small species of leopard, the rhinoceros, two wild 

 species of hog, and five species of weasel. Two of 

 the latter yield musk ; and one, the Viverra musaruja^ 



* For a list of the nnin])er of ships that arrived during 1864, their 

 tonnage, and tlie count rie-< from which they came, see Api)endix E. 



