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as might be expected, from a wood that is obtained 
from different localities in so large a district. The 
best is of good colour, mild, and straight in texture and 
of fine grain—almost the equal of good Panama wood. 
The great defect, however, of the logs that are shipped is 
the worm-holes that are occasionally to be met with, 
these not being the incursions of small worms on the 
outside of the logs but borings of sea—probably the 
teredo worm—which works right through the log. 
Possibly, better means will soon be found by shippers 
to prevent this damage, which is doubtless caused by 
the logs remaining too long on the sea-board. They 
are exported in fairly well manufactured condition, 
although somewhat short in length, and the wood holds 
a favourable position in the estimation of buyers, 
its use being general in the cabinet and building trades 
and in other industries where mahogany is used. 
African Walnut.—Shipped among the mahogany 
from most of the districts a wood is found which is 
sold under this name. It is of varied shades of light- 
brown and has, perhaps in consequence of its colour, 
become known as walnut. Putting on one side this 
colour, it certainly bears every outward characteristic 
of a mahogany, and this assumption has received con- 
firmation, Professor Boulger, in an appendix to a later 
edition of his book, remarking, after an examination 
of samples of this wood exhibited at a Tropical Produce 
Exhibition, held in Liverpool in 1907 that: ‘A Benin 
variety, with the native name of Apobo Enwina, was a 
species of Trichilia (natural order Meliacae) and, there- 
fore, in reality a mahogany, but sold under the name of 
African Walnut.” He describes the sample as of brown 
to dark-brown colour, having numerous dark veins but 
no figure. 
Another Southern Nigerian sample, however, of 
