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be seen from the sea at a distance of ten or twelve miles, 

 has a fall, ajDparently of about two hundred feet. 



Various kinds of bananas, the mountain plantain, some 

 thirty varieties of bread-fruit trees, the wood of which is 

 never attacked by worms, the vi, or Brazilian plum (Spon- 

 dias clulcis), the ifi, the cocoa-nut tree ; the yam, taro, and 

 other esculent roots ; the pandanus, sundry palm trees, the 

 the malili, the taina or ati [CalophyUam inophyllum). 

 Woods adapted to ship-bruldiug are indigenous to the island. 



The chief commercial jDroducts of Upolu are beche de 

 mer, cocoanut-oil and fibre, arrowroot, and cotton. Fifty 

 thousand cocoa-nuts yield 500 gallons of oil; that is to say, 

 one hundred nuts make a gallon. This oil sells at from 35^. 

 to i^l. a ton. In the preparation of it there is yet much to 

 be desired, the mode of producing it being of the rudest 

 kind ; and it is a matter of regret that presses are not used 

 such as are employed in Ceylon, though even there the pro- 

 cess is so imperfect as to cause a consfderable waste. 

 Cotton succeeds admirably, two excellent varieties of which 

 are grown, one of them decidedly of the first quality. The 

 value of the exports annually is 200,000 dollars ; that of 

 the imports is somewhat less. Among the latter the things 

 most in request are calico, cotton-prints, handkerchiefs, 

 ribbons, guns, powder, shot, axes, cutlery, tobacco, wine, 

 and spirituous liquors. 



In the port of Apia are to be had vegetables, beef, pork, 

 and excellent water. The watering-place is not conve- 

 niently situated, it being difficult to get really fresh water 



