FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 27 



Although from Norway no direct African timber 

 trade of any importance seems to exist — for in 1870 

 the exports were represented by 108 Commercial 

 Lasts, averaging in total about 216 tons, of planed 

 timber and flooring — yet, as Great Britain has absorbed 

 nearly one half of the whole timber export represented 

 by sawn timber, deals, battens, boards, staves, &c., no 

 doubt a fair proportion as manufactured articles finds 

 a market later in West Africa. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. J. Bolton, of Messrs. 

 Stanford, I am enabled to here summarise the result 

 of the late European scramble for Africa and the 

 positions consequent thereon. Its Western side is 

 now almost completely appropriated by European 

 Powers. The Sultan of Morocco claims the coast 

 from Gibraltar Strait as far as Wady Dra'a, from 

 which to Cape Bojador the coast is commercially 

 worked by an English Company — " The North- West 

 Africa Trading Company " — with its head-quarters at 

 Cape Juby. From Cape Bojador to Levrier Bay, in 

 lat. 21° N., Spain has declared herself mistress. 

 From Levrier Bay to Punshavel Point on the right 

 of the Saloum River the coast is French ; from a 

 point opposite to Punshavel Point on the left bank of 

 the Saloum River to southern limit of British Combo 

 is the Gambia, the first British West African Settle- 

 ment. Next to Gambia and conterminous with 

 British Combo is Foreign Combo, a native State 

 somewhat under British protection, presided over by 



