110 IMPORTS OF COCOA-NUT OIL. 
The imports, which were in 1838, 32,666 cwt., had risen to 
85,463 cwt. in 1848, and have since continued to increase. 
Cwt. Cwt. 
1848 : 85,463 1851 = 55,915 
1849 : 64,452 1852 - 101,863 
1850 . 98,039 1853 - 164,196 
How large a proportion of this is brought from India, will 
appear from the following analysis of the quanties : 
Imported into United 
ingdom in 1850. 
Cwt. 
Cocoa-nut Oil imported from British Possessions in India . 85,096 
” ” ” in Australia . 6,315 
+ 4 other parts. . - 6,628 
ny 
98,039 
Cocoa-nuts, from the quantity of fibre on their exterior and 
oil in their interior, are necessarily well suited for burning. 
Hence they are sometimes fixed on stakes, and used to illumi- 
nate roads, &c. The shell itself, when burnt, yields an excellent 
kind of charcoal. In their entire state they are used for a variety 
of purposes, such as hoogas, vessels to hold water, cups to drink 
out of; and with handles fixed into them, they serve as ladles 
and spoons. We sometimes see them brought home as curiosities, 
highly polished on the outside ; sometimes scraped so thin as to 
be semitransparent ; at other times, stained black, elaborately 
carved, and mounted in silver. 
Besides these various products, the wood of the Cocoa-nut 
tree is used for various purposes, as among the Singalese, when 
it has become old and the tree has ceased to bear, for making 
small boats, frames for houses, rafters, &c.; also for spear- 
handles, furniture, and fancy articles of different kinds. It is 
also exported to European markets, where it is known by the 
name of Porcupine wood. 
The Singalese split the fronds in halves, and plait the leaflets 
neatly, so as to make excellent baskets, and, under the name of 
cadjans, they form the usual covering of their huts, as well as 
of the bungalows of Europeans ; and are exported to northern 
parts, where the Cocoa-nut does not flourish so well: 149,500 
were imported into Bombay in the year 1850-51. The dried 
fronds are sometimes used as torches or for fuel; their 
