FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



As regards trade with British Africa, it would seem, 

 to include Her Majesty's Possessions in South Africa, 

 and Natal ; so that the statistics do not aiTord the. 

 same pointed interest and value they would otherwise,, 

 could I have used and confined figures to West Africa 

 and the West African Islands alone. 



Reporting on the Forestry of Sweden and Norway,. 

 Mr. Bering stated, vide Command Paper just referred 

 to: — 



" There is hardly a maritime country in the world, 

 with the exception of China and Japan, to which the 

 produce of Swedish forests does not appear to find its. 

 way." 



West Africa is not here an exception. Swedish 

 and Norwegian vessels regularly find their way to this, 

 coast, and as an instance I would here give that,, 

 according to the Specification and Value of Exports, 

 from Sweden of each kind of timber during 1872 to 

 each foreign country, consignments, as under, valued 

 at i^7,ooo 17 s. 6d., reached Africa exclusive of the. 

 Cape of Good Hope — meaning Cape Colony. 



