56 FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



At the same port, for 1885, the receipts were : 



From W. C. Africa about 35,000 tons (in shell). 



,, S. America and Spain 1,500 ,, ,, 



,, Mozambique and Congo 8,180 ,, ,, 



,, India 62,000 ,, ,, 



While in the first eleven months of 1886 there 

 were received into Marseilles : 



From W. C. Africa (50 per cent, of which 



came from Senegal) . . . about 12,600 tons (in shell). 



,, S. America and Spain 255 ,, ,, 



,, Mozambique and Congo 1,100 „ (shelled). 



,, India 68,000 ,, „ 



In the year 1880 there was the most prosperous 

 season on the West Coast of Africa for this com- 

 modity, when the receipts in Marseilles alone reached 

 72,000 tons. 



Detailed particulars will be found on pages 52-3 of 

 the export trade from the Gambia in the ground 

 nut, which in Senegambia and Her Majesty's settle- 

 ments adjoining forms the chief and principal article 

 of export — the local commercial idol — and accordingly 

 deserves more notice here than to be allowed to be 

 generally absorbed, as is the case in the general 

 Table of nuts and kernels imported into the United 

 Kingdom. 



Writing on the staples of Africa to Mr. Martin 

 (British Colonies) in 1842 or 1843, Mr. Mathew 

 Foster, to whom I have elsewhere alluded by quota- 

 tion, conveyed on the A rachis hypogcea : " I have 



