76 FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



So far there does not exist any tax on palm oil or 

 oil-producing nuts and kernels on their import into 

 the United Kingdom : such immunity also is en- 

 joyed on their export from British Possessions, West 

 Africa, with the exception of the Gambia, where is 

 levied a duty of 6s. 2>d. per ton of 2,240 lbs. net weight 

 on ground nuts exported ; and of Sierra Leone, where 

 is charged id. per imperial gallon on palm oil, 2d. per 

 cwt. on palm kernels, beni-seed, and decorticated 

 ground-nuts, and id. on last-mentioned in shell. 



For the information and guidance of cultivators 

 and commercial men, there is given a Table of the 

 principal oil-yielding seeds (with purposes to which 

 put) that find their way to the markets of European 

 and American countries. I also show whence they 

 come, their yield and value. For much of this 

 information I am indebted to Herr Heldbek of the 

 German house of Gaiser, Hamburg ; and to Monsieur 

 Bohn, the enterprising Managing Director at Mar- 

 seilles of the Compagnie du Senegal et de la c6te 

 occidentale d'Afrique. (See Tables, pp. 74, 75.) 



The foregoing Return is divided, it will be observed, 

 into two parts. The first relates exclusively to the 

 seeds : the second to the oil therefrom. 



I understand that the price of oil extracted from 

 the same seeds (I would mention ground-nut and 

 beni-seed) varies according to the pressure : the first 

 yielding the best, a fine bright oil which admits of its 

 competing with ordinary olive oil, with which it is not 



