FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



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Year. Article. 



1879 

 1880 

 1881 

 1882 



1883 



Rubber 



i885t 



Countries to which 

 exported. 



Quantities. 



Great Britain . 



Great Britain . 

 France 

 Goree . 



Great Britain 

 France 

 Goree . 



Windward Coast 

 .America . 



! Great Britain 

 France 

 America . 

 Goree . 



Nil 



2 pkgs.,273 lbs, 



41,75s lbs. 



4.453 .. 

 5, 800 ,, 



95.523 .. 



133. 548 ., 



13,802 „ 



13.962 „ 



450 .. 



32.380 „ 



i.«33 .. 

 2.238 „ 

 5.728 „ 



Value. 



Nil 



114 



5.107 

 361 

 580 



8,471 

 12,710 

 999 

 993 

 39 



2,048 

 128 

 132 

 363 



i Total. 



114 



6048 



23,212 



2,671 



On this article in the Portuguese Possessions of 

 South-Western Africa, Monteiro, in his ' Angola and 

 the Congo,' writes as follows : — 



" We now come to one of the most curious products 

 of this interesting country, namely india-rubber, called 

 by the Natives ' Tangandando.' It has been an 

 article exported in considerable quantities north of 

 the River Congo, and knowing that the plant from 

 which it was obtained grew in abundance in the 



* During same year there were imported into Gambia — from 

 Windward Coast, 3,i2olbs., valued at ;^i88 i6j. ; from Sierra 

 Leone, 98,560 lbs., valued at ;^9,68o ; and from Leeward Coast, 

 1,67s lbs., valued at ;^i33 15J. 



•j- Vide footnote, p. 79. 



