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1876, 1877, and 1878 respectively were, 144,493, 148,126, 

 143,447; the yields in hilo., 46,033,163, 44,164,038, 

 40,978,540; and the yield (in Tcilo.) per jocli (of 1-43 

 acre), 445, 426, 408. Fiume, in 1877, exported by sea 

 2862 cwt. of manufactured tobacco; and by land, 31,200 

 cwt. of leaf, and 53,712 cwt. of manufactured. In 1879, 

 it shipped 9900 Mlo. of leaf tobacco direct to England. In 

 1883, the tobacco harvest was 26,560 metrical centners 

 (about equivalent to cwts.), being 1595 in advance of 

 1882. The total exports of raw tobacco were 55,842 

 metrical centners in 1883, and 74,475 in 1884. The port 

 of Fiume shipped 613 tons of tobacco leaf in 1883, of 

 which 189,300 kilo, value 75,720 florins, went to Gibraltar. 

 In 1884, the shipments from Fiume were 1673 tons. 



Borneo. — Tobacco is grown in small quantities by the 

 Dyaks and people of Bruni ; but they are unskilful in its 

 manufacture, though the flavour of the product of Bruni 

 is much esteemed by Europeans. Under skilful manage- 

 ment, and by introducing a better kind if necessary, it 

 might become as profitable to this island as it now is to 

 the neighbouring ones of the Philippines, Java, &c. The 

 Dyaks might be more readily induced to cultivate this 

 plant, the nature of which they know, than plants which 

 are strange to them. More recently it is announced that 

 j)lantations have been commenced in British North Borneo, 

 and samples of the leaf sent to Europe have been favour- 

 ably reported on. The exports from Sarawak in 1884 

 were valued at 2020 dollars to foreign ports, and 34,257 

 dollars in coasting vessels, making a total of 36,277 

 dollars. In the same year, British North Borneo shipped 

 2113 dollars' worth ; and Sandakan, 1537 dollars' worth. 



