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-Afriean negroes in these parts, which onal observation and con- ` 
versations with them, and West African traders who visit this, enables 2 
me to attribute to the free use of the kola bean, whi wW 
being introduced into the French eir after Por study, and experi- 
ce 
negro, and yet, the African, through constantly masticating kola, can 
endure labour and fatigue which no Brazilian carrier can withstand, and — — 
where, for LEE it takes eight Brazilian negroes to carry a s load with Pe 
as the discharging of vessels is paid by weight as a ues the African 
gangs, who have le ess hands, earn twice as much, an T they hoard 
in no way injurious, & act as : nutritive, quench thirst, are not stimulant, 
and yet produce vigour and freshness. have myself had a bag of 
sugar weighing 80 kilos a (179 Ibs. English) refused by a young healthy 
able-bodied native negro porter, who eould not so much as move it, 
earried away with ease by an aged African negro, after biting a 
piece, of kola nut, and transported a distance of 4 miles in an hour and 
a quarter without once taking it off his head, and I could cite many 
similar instances 
or soon after gathered ; each bean is sold AM from 9d. to 3d., recording 
to freshness. A bit of the nut is MN in the mouth and mas cated co 
gradually until it is ANTO NER: I have little doubt that this eK beah —— $3 
is well known to Her Majesty's Görene, but having frequently c, 
extolled its merits in my private correspondence with Mr. Wyndham at — 
Rio de Janeiro, his Excellency suggested my re porting on it to your 
Lordship for the oe of -i Majesty’ s War Office. eo 
I transmit, in charge of Captain Spooner, of the Royal Mail Steam 
ket Company’s rearitehi " Clyde, ” a dozen kola nuts, from a parcel 
recently imported by a negro trader from ave gos. 
ve, &c. = E oe 
(Signed) Quo. Axe deeem m. 
The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., 
&e. &e, 
It may be added that the attention of the Govor of Tiia fis 
been drawn to the use of cola nuts “as a stimulant to men who ma; be 
called upon to undergo prolonged exertion.” The needful information 
has been supplied from Kew upon the subject. 
In addition to cola nuts, sometimes called female os; the 
Cola acuminata, there are “nuts” used in West Africa fo 
purposes known as * bitter cola " or male p 
supposed, have been identified by Dr. nobeni 
ny, vol. iv., 1875, p. 65), as evidently em of some member of the 
-— order — “The materials are not t suficient, however, 
