FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 169 



XIII. 



Tobacco (according to Humboldt derived from the 

 Haytian name for the pipe in which it is smoked), 

 as per the following table (p. 170), which affords 

 statistics between the United Kingdom and West 

 Africa, exclusive of the direct trade in this commodity 

 from United States of America, Brazil, Germany, as 

 also from the Canaries, is only remarkable by its 

 import into West Africa, where, if the plant be not 

 indigenous, it has certainly become a naturalised 

 African product, and in consequence deserves every 

 attention locally. 



These statistics only embrace particulars of Euro- 

 pean trade, both foreign and British. There is, 

 however, a large direct trade done in this article 

 regularly between Germany, Brazil and the United 

 States of America, and West Africa. 



It must not be overlooked that for" the steady 

 supply in the direction of our Colonies of unmanu- 

 factured tobacco, the United Kingdom is mainly 

 dependent on foreign countries, represented chiefly 

 by the United States of America (from which is 

 obtained Nicotiana tabamm, &c.), Japan, Holland, and 



