Preface XXXIL. 
cheaper fuel certainly go a long way to help 
overcome the clamour one hears on all sides 
for a cheap and reliable fuel, in order to 
obtain better transport facilities. In face of 
all this, when the reader comes to page 216 
in Mr. Hudson’s essay, and sees that for every 
bag of cacao produced we can look for two 
gallons of vinegar and a corresponding supply 
of alcohol, it is pleasant to think of the large 
supples of alcohol that might be forthcoming. 
from cacao estates, since, according to the 
Hamburg Gordian, the world’ s output of raw 
cacao is as follows :— 
Tue Wor.p's Cacao Crops, AS PUBLISHED BY THE 
Gordian, or HamsurG, 1n 1Ts IssuE No. 429, 
FOR Marcu 6, 1913, P. 6040. 
Tons of 1,000 kilos. 1910 IQII 
Gold Coast ns wea 23,112 se 40,357 
Ecuador ... ais oes 36,305 site 38,804 
San Thomé sia 2 36,665 et 35,000 
Brazil... ae i a 29,158 = 34,994. 
Trinidad —. si os 26,231 iets 21,220 
San Domingo ... aes 16,623 one 19,828 
Venezuela if ae 17,251 is 17,381 
Grenada ... od ee 5,846 is 5,948 
Lagos... oe dan 2,978 aa 4,471 
Cameroons and 
German Dolenteat 41073 se 49404 
Ceylon... a set 4,069 esa 3,064 
Fernando Po ... 28 2,349 sek 3,000 
Jamaica ... ve 1,743 oe 2,783 
Dutch Colonies .. et 2,579 its 2,460 
Surinam ... a 0% 2,043 tas 1,595 
Haiti ain ste a 1,851 a 1,485 
Carried forward 212,876 es 236,794 
