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THE SAGO PALMS, BREAD-FEUIT, &C 



to be packed in boxes, or put into bags for sliipment; and is 

 known iu commerce under the name of " pearl sago." Thus the 

 labor of fifteen or twenty men is required to do that which, with the 

 aid of simple machinery, might be done much better by three or 

 four laborers. A water-wheel would both work a stirring machine 

 and cause an inclined cylinder to revolve over a fire, for the pur- 

 pose of drying the sago, in the manner used for corn, meal, and 

 flour in America, or for roasting coffee and chicory in England. 

 But the Chinese have no idea ot substituting artificial means, 

 when manual ones are obtainable. 



A considerable quantity of sago is exported from Singapore in 

 the state of flour. The whole quantity made and exported there 

 exceeds, on the average, 2,500 tons annually. The quantity 

 shipped from this entrepot is shown hy the annexed returns, nearly 

 all of which was grown and manufactured in the settlement. 

 The estimated value for export is set down at 14s. per picul of 

 li cwt. 



EXPORTS FKOM SINGAPORE. 



Piculs. 



1840- 41 . . Pearl sago 41,146 



„ . . Sago flour 33,552 



1841- 42 . . Pearl sago 46,225 



,, .. Sago flour 7,447 



1842- 43 .. Pearl sago 25,306 



. . Sago flour 4,838 



1843- 44 . . Pearl sago 14,266 



„ . . Sago flour 14,067 



1844- 45 . . Pearl sago 18,472 



. . Sago flour 36,141 



1845- 46 . . Pearl sago 19,333 



„ . . Sago flcur 26,925 



1848-47 . . Pearl sago 40,765 



„ . . Sago flour 9,025 



Imports of sago into the United Kingdom, and quantity re- 

 tained for home consumption : — 



Imports. Home consumption. 



Cwts. Cwts. 



1826 9,644 2,565 



1830 2,677 3,385 



1834 25,763 13,827 



1838 18,627 28,396 



1842 45,646 50,994 



1846 38,595 45,671 



1848 65,000 



1849 83,711 72,741 



1850 89,884 83,954 



THE BPEAD-FEUIT TREE, 



Artocarpiis incisa. — This tree is less cultivated than would 

 be supposed from its useful properties. In tlie West Indies and 

 the Indian Islands, where it has been introduced from its native 

 place, the South Sea Islands, it is held in very little considera- 

 tion, the graminea, tuberous roots, and farinaceous plants being 



