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Mg. by imported rice = Reser es. Last year’s yield of copra was 
rich; the natives hav nted young trees, in accordance with 
regulation of September, 1894, which Bical bear a full crop in some 
10 years’ time. 
“The plantation at Likieb, the joint property of an American, a Ger- 
man, and a Portuguese, yielde ed 210,000 lbs. copra in 1894—95, and 25 
fresh hectares were planted 
* Attached to the plantation is a small ship-building yard, which turns 
eut excellent sailing-boats used by the Marshall, Caroline, and Gilbert 
natives. ‘The material has all to be imported by the Jaluit Company * as 
the cocoa-nut wood breaks like 
“ The Jaluit Company's plintationis at Providence and ‘Killi are also 
“The total copra yield amounted during the year 1894-95, to 
4,7 30,259 English Ibs. as compared with 4,767,169 English lbs. in the 
revious year. most all the isles showed an increased yield excepting 
auru, where, on account of the drovght, the crop fell from 421,000 Ibs. 
to only 31,509 lbs. 
“There are three experimental gardens at Jaluit, where several 
European vegetables (such as salad, tomatos, cucumbers, radishes, &c.) 
do well, but good soil is so scarce, having to be imported as ballast, that 
extensive cultivation is out of the question. 
* Pigs are the only avimals reared for food purposes on the islands, 
there being no fodder for catile or sheep ; cattle and sheep are occasion- 
ally imported, but baro, to be killed at once for want of green food. 
There is no wild gam 
* Nauru. o operit eere C Kaiserlicher Landeshaupt- 
), Dr. made a voyage Naura (formerly known as 
Pleasant Toland) in August, 1894, d his report oic some 
tuteresting information on the inhabitants of this isolated s 
‘There is no harbour, and te canuot even anchor oF ‘the shore, 
tiio coral reefs being unusually steep. 
auru, lying almost on the pano fully five degrees south of see, 
Isle, the southernmost of the Ralick Marshall Isles, is reported to 
without doubt, the most beautiful and, in rainy years, the most fruitful 
of e whole protectornte. 
‘rom January, 1892, to shortly before the soe arrival, no 
rain to speak of had fallen, and the copra harvest of 1893 was conse- 
poe lat lost. Some of the cocoa-nut trees produce the almost — 
of from 1200 to 1500 cocoa-nuts. The distress in consequen 
of the drought was so great that the copra tax had to be suspended, com 
the trading licenses 2 y half. 
* The i-let, onl 10 marine miles in circumference, rises in 
terraces of coral forme didis from the sea, the highest ground being some 
metres from the sea-level. 
“ As a guide to ships a flagstaff has been erected on " highest point. 
he high ground is wooded. Near the centre is a fish-pond with 
brackish — surrounded by a palm grove of aa Tam trees adi 
80 to 100 feet high. 
“The arene village lies elcse to the shore, hal? being built on 
piles in the sea. 
* Attached ve aee house is an inclosure with tame sea-swallows and 
other large marine birds. The feathers were fe e y mule to the 
Marshall I eoa to adorn the hair and eurs of the ives, and dress their 
, but th e has now ceased, the birds ine still e to amuse 
