FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 109 



labour, and exported to Hamburg, \\'ith the result of 

 a return at the rate of between \s. to \s. id. per lb., 

 which speaks well for the native's labour, and points 

 to what can be done on those hills. 



Coffee can within my own experience be grown 

 in British Combo, Gambia, and in other parts of that 

 Settlement. 



From Sierra Leone {Coffea stenopJiylld) and the 

 Gold Coast {Coffea arabica /) there is a small free 

 export of native growth in this commodity, which 

 should have by this time outstripped in quantity the 

 export from the Portuguese Possessions further south. 



In former years there was an encouraging export 

 in this article from Sierra Leone, the hills of which 

 are admirably suited for its growth. Why has it not 

 developed ? 



As regards the Gold Coast, apart from my re- 

 marks on the coffee movement on the Aquapim 

 Hills, there was in years gone by a healthy planta- 

 tion of some seventy acres in extent at Napoleon, near 

 Cape Coast, covered by some 3,500 trees of en- 

 couraging promise : whence I have also had at times 

 fruit of the Citrus anrantiiiin, that was also natural- 

 ised, but allowed since to run to nature. 



Again, in the times of the Danes on the Gold Coast, 

 they established inland behind Christiansborg a coffee 

 plantation which was said to produce excellent results. 



In the Island of Lagos I introduced, through the 

 generosity of Herr Vohsen of Sierra Leone, plants. 



