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ofthe ili of the town Ve purum r. Itis, however, well to note that 
_ if reliance is to be placed on observations taken 40 years ago, the rainfall 
has since then diminished to about one third of what it then was. In 
_ confirmation this we sh that there has been. a gradual and ‘marked 
. diminution during the las 
The chief. Mme products of the islands of cpniasereial importance 
Piven time a 
. The Clove J'üpesia anhaa a, Sok first introduced into culti- - 
ation in ‘the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon (Réunion) by the French 
in 1770 was taken to Zanzibar about 70 years ago, where it became an ~ 
- article of general attention to the Arab planters of Zanzibar and Pemba. 
Previous to the year 1872, when the whole of the island of Zanzibar 
and the southern vais of Pemba were swept by a hurricane that. 
Ps destroyed the clove trees, the crop reached from 7,000,000.to 11,000,000 
; bos weight yearly, two thirds of which were produced by estates in . 
Zanzibar, 
) of the two oe = bred di Mr. ‘Portal’s ropes now exceeds 
An account of oe ce Galt at Canes is given in United ag 
States Consular Repel April 1890, p. 687, by Consul ] Pratt.] but 
next in importance t) the clove is t hat of the Coco a-nnt Jn 

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- value of. epee exported amounted to nearly 20 .per annum 
f copra, w ich was sent to Bombay and Masa or used 
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cant underground, et i dt to rot, and so (geret great a 
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rocky er, of the island, quodin the sey eo coral punt ecu : 
combed ruse that | rane the accumulation of rich soil in the crevices, - 
The pods are picked when ripe, sun-dried, and packed in mat és 
the aput front of the Hyph:ene e t for shipment. diusJé en — 
that. bas verano iais the t 30 ears, rw 
chillies, as they a n the market i jn a dry stalo, are 
a inch in length. The; 
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