igni 
“The trade in the chief products of the Cameroons, oil, palm nuts, 
‘indiarubber, and ivory, is still suffering — the fall in prices quoted 
n ) o A gradual change is being 
effected in the inland trade ; formerly the export goods passed rom 
tribe to tribe, and eventually only reached the Furopean firms through 
the native middlemen on the coast; now the firms despatch caravans 
"every month from eight to 10 days’ march in*c the interior, and exchange 
European imports for iv ory and indiarubber. 
“The unsatisfactory middleman is thus being abolished, wish is 
xloubtless an advantage; but the cost price is much the same now as 
formerly, in Jis cs of the expense in carriers, almest all Wey-men 
from Li 
* The botanical gardens at Victoria continue to render valuable 
sservice; the Arabian coffee tree thrives very well, while the Liberian 
^coffeo tree suffers—especially in the rainy season—from a mouldy 
growth. (As stated above, in the neighbcuring colony of Togoland, it 
1s the Liberian tree that thrives, and the Arabian that has beef attacked 
by disease.) Clove t re ryophyllus aromaticus) do well, and are 
E i Para gum trees (Zeve brasi 
‘sent to Hamburg, and crm good prices. Large diri e ‘of 
. Jamaican and Canton ginger will consequently be made this year 
inutmeg (Myristica moschata) has not turiven, probably on account 
«of the dry climate. On the other hand, black pepper does very well. 
*: During the year the botanical garden shipped :— 
Articles. | Quantity. Value. 
Í 
| Kilos. £ 
Cocoa B - - - - 3,101 208 
Coffee - B - - - - 533 40 am 
Ginger  - - - - - 270 5 
Coffee and vanilla samples - - - 11:5 1 
Total - - - * — | 254 
“ The garden further 13 sie a great vey of seels to the various 
European planters and missi 
* The € eene worked by three whites and 240 coloured 
labourers, has a cocoa trees. In 1893-94 the cocoa crop 
was 78 rudi in Tod “95, 5, 200 centners. The tobacco A as on the 
contrary, fell off from 110 centners in the former to 60 cen n the 
Jatter year. ‘The Havannah tobacco > the best i in quay, do not 
yield so heavy a crop as the Surinam plat 
* Similar progress is reported from the other plantations. 
* The value of goods exported during 1894-95 amounted to 204,0567., 
as ere with 238,707/. in the previous year, showing the diminution 
of 34,65 
