THE FORESTS OF JAVA. 



iucluding pasturage, 218,1G1 acres. In Jara and 

 Madura, last year (18G4), the cultivated fields and 

 the groves of cocoa-nut palms covered an area of 

 2,437,0a7 acres. In Cuba, from 1853 to 1858, the 

 yearly exports were from 27,000,000 to 32,000,000 of 

 dollars, and the imports of about the same value. In 

 Java, last year, the imports amounted to 66,846,412 

 guilders (26,738,565 dollars) ; and the expoiis to the 

 enormous sum of 123,094,798 goildei-s (49,237,919 

 dollars). During 1864 twenty-four ships aiTived from 

 the United States, of 12,610 tons' capacity, and three 

 sailed for our country, of a united capacity of 2,258 

 tons* 



Both of these great islands abomid in forests, 

 that yield large quantities of valuable timber. Java 

 furnishes the indesti-uctible teak, from which the 

 Malays and Javanese fitted out a fleet of three huu- 

 dred vessels that besieged Malacca, two years fiffcer 

 it had fallen into the hands of the Portuguese. In 

 lite manner the Spaniards, between 1724 and 1796, 

 built with timber from the forests of Cuba an armada 

 that numbered one hundred and fourteen vessels, 

 carrying more than foui' thousand guns. From the 

 Cuban forests come the indestructible lignumrmtm^ 

 and the Ijeautiful mahogany. Those jungles shelter 

 no wild animals larger than dogs, but these in Java 

 are the haunts of wild oxen, tigers, one lai'ge and two 

 small species of leopard, the rhinoceros, two wild 

 species of hog, and five species of weasel. Two of 

 the latter yield musk ; and one, the Vivei'va miisam/a^ 



* For & list of the number of ships that arrived dnring 18(14, tlioir 

 tonnage, and the countrictg from whieh they etmae, see Append is E, 



