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industry. You will, eraiki no doubt also observe hiore satisfaction 
that the present sample orted upon in very favourable terms. 
The estimated value is the Prison which oa been me upon any 
sample of cotton yet received from si shee 
(Signed) ” “W. T. THISELTON-DYER. 
The Hon. R. H. Meade, C.B. 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MANCHESTER, to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, 
DEAR are February 4, 1891. 
HAVE pleasure in reporting to you upon the sample of Egyptian 
ein nad and unginned, oan at Castle Farm, Christiansborg, 
Ace To rded by you on the 19th December. lt has 
are to the judgment of it members of this Chamber, and is 
zma as good, clean, and very desirable cotton, worth to-day about 
63d. per pound in Liverpool. Can you inform me whether the sample 
was ginned in Africa or in this Cona e 
Yours, &c. 
(Signed) ELIJAH HELM, 
Secretary. 
VI.—GAMBIA PAGNS OR NATIVE CLOTHS. 
[K. B., 1894, pp. 191-192.] 
Next to the cultivation of the ground nut en hypogaea, L. )» 
shipped to Europe for the manufacture of oil, ost im 
industry of the settlement of the Gambia on the West Coast of Africa 
is the cultivation and manufacture of cotton. peer p oR is made 
the native “ pagns” or country cloths which n great request in 
that part of the world. Sir Alfred Moloney (Forestry of West Africa, 
p. nt ono that i in oe to supplying cloths ome consump- 
“ pagn ” industry of the Gambia exported Moths of the value 
a P80 in 1883 thd of 2 TAI. in 1884. “Pagns” are also made at 
hr and some of them are exported even to Brazil for the use of the 
African negroes who have emigrated to that country. The whole 
names is a singularly interesting one. The cotton is gathered, ginned, 
and spun ci thread by the ore ee entirely by hand. The 
loom for aving the cloth i very crude contrivance. “This 
« pisilin e hots loom,” says Sir “Alfred Moloney, “in use amongst the 
" Parier is what has come down through centuries to them from their 
ncestors, and, it is needless to add, it is capable of improvement to 
s ‘chen advantage. It certainly deserves attention.” ch frame 
na 
The native en pai ” are regarded i extremely durable, and they are 
in greater request fee any similar article of European manufacture. 
At the request of Kew, his Honour R. B. Llewelyn, C.M.G., Adminis- 
trator of the Gambia, was good enough to forward, in January last, the 
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