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APPENDIX. 



Chief Towns of Ecuador — continued. 



FOKEIGN TEADE OF ECUADOR (1891). 



Chief Exports :— Cocoa, £900,000; cofiPee, £140,000 ; gold and silver, £100,000; rubber, £80,000: 

 hides, £20,000; sugar, £31,000. 



Chief Imports :— Textiles, £400,000; provisions, £200,000 ; hardware, £40,000. 



SHIPPING RETURNS (1891). 

 Entered. 



Cleared. 



Total 



006 



373,577 



015 



456,000 



Guayaquil (1890) :— Total exchanges, £2,400,000. Shipping, 896 vessels; tonnage, 642,000. 



FINANCE. 



Revenue (1892) : Customs, £386,000 ; total, £572,000. 



Expenditure (1892) : Charges on debt, £114,300 ; total, £602,000. 



Public Debt (1892) : External, £700,000; internal, £1,000,000; total, £1,750,000. 



Regular forces, 3.350; National Guard, 30,000. 

 Railway, Dui-an-Chimbo line, 63 miles. 

 Primary and other schools, 866 ; attendance, 58,000. 

 University (Quito) : staff, 24; students, 116. 



GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. 



