in 



NUTMEGS AND MACE 



139 



Banda 



Sumatra . 



Minahassa 



Java 



Amboyna 



Halmaheira 



Total 



400,000 



190,000 



100,000 



50,000 



80,000 



30,000 



850,000 



and the following figures are taken from his table of the 

 production of nutmegs and mace from the Moluccas in 

 Amsterdam pounds : 



1820 

 1830 

 1840 

 1850 

 1860 

 1871 

 1880 

 1890 

 1894 



Nutmegs shelled. 



200,000 Ib. 



195,348 



511,001 



557,434 

 1,072,765 



946,000 



937,000 

 1,028,000 

 1,329,000 



Mace. 



75,000 Ib 



58,357 

 119,260 

 128,345 

 275,586 

 232,000 ' 

 260,000 

 272,000 

 278,000 



The Malay Peninsula. The cultivations of Penang 

 and Singapore commenced to show results in the markets 

 of Europe in 1830. The exports are given by Warburg 

 as follows in kilograms : 



Then followed the collapse of the nutmeg plantations 

 in Penang and Singapore, from which the latter island 

 never recovered. Penang, however, produced, in 1875 

 to 1885, 14,000 kilograms of nutmegs and 37,000 

 kilograms of mace, and in 1885 to 1894 the Malay 



