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represented fresh and necessary industries in those 

 islands, consequent on the falling off of prices obtained 

 for cochineal. Tobacco from these islands of local 

 growth finds its way already to West Africa. The 

 sugar-cane plants have and are being received from 

 Madeira, where they were and are imported from 

 Mauritius. 



Of the Spanish Island of Fernando Po, the Landers, 

 in their ' Niger,' published in 1833, write : — 



" There are various sorts of timber at Fernando Po, 

 among which the African oak is very plentiful, and 

 particularly so in George's Bay, where it grows close 

 to the sea-side. Satin wood, ebony, lignum vitcB, yellow 

 camwood, and several sorts of mahogany, besides 

 other wood of a very hard nature, grow in profusion 

 all over the island, and may probably hereafter 

 become valuable." 



" During 1884 Germany extended her Empire 

 beyond the bounds of Europe by taking under her 

 protection certain portions of the West Coast of 

 Africa. On the slave coast Germany has annexed 

 the territories of Togo and Bajida, extending about 

 twenty-four miles beyond the eastern limit of the 

 British Gold Coast Colony. In Biafra Bay to the 

 east of the British Oil River Territory, Germany 

 has annexed the district of Bimbia, the island of 

 Nikol, and the various kinglets of the Cameroon 

 River, the district of Malimba, Plantation and Criby 

 where the French Territory of Gaboon is reached. 



