xxxvill. The Fermentation of Cacao 
of peace, standing at the enormous total of 
4195,000,000. All this discourages individual 
action by causing those wishing to help to 
ask, ‘““What can I do against this or that 
concern?” And unless the Government that 
dominates, or should dominate, all trade con- 
cerns points the way, individual members of 
the rising generation will become still more 
and more timid and averse to setting out on 
those voyages of adventure that their fore- 
bears undertook, and to which this country 
owes its greatness, and without which our 
prosperity, in comparison to that of other 
countries, will not continue. 
It is well to remember in connection with 
this that an aggregate of individual efforts, 
whether large or small, is far more ad vantage- 
ous to any country or colony, as it brings in 
its train greater anxiety for’ a settled state of 
affairs, more local responsibility, and general 
contentment, than is, as a rule, forthcoming, 
when large labour-employing concerns are the 
order of the day. In saying this I do not by 
any means wish to decry the latter; they are 
bound to be a most important factor in open- 
ing up new lands; but at the ‘same time, when 
we can secure the development of the Tropics 
by the help of peasant proprietors, and big 
privately-owned estates, I would urge that we 
encourage and help them in every way possible. 
This book offers one means of assisting such 
folks, for it shows how the cacao or other 
