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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [December i, 1888. 
terms oliered by the Government are such as no 
man in his senses would or could accept. Even 
the enterprising, energetic British colonist would 
not go empty-handed to a strange land and settle 
in a wilderness, nor does he go alone. He goes in 
company, laden with supplies to last till his 
first harvests come in, and with capital or tools 
wherewith to house himself and comrades or family. 
Mr. De Soysa, wise and good man as he is, first built 
lines and villages to receive Ms immigrants, and 
therefore they came willingly, and soon spread the 
report of their newly-found homes amongst their 
still desolate old friends, who, in like manner, came 
freely to share the blessing. So, likewise, would it 
be on the lands under the restored tanks, if the 
Government were as wise and as good as their worthy 
exemplar, and every acre would be occupied as in 
the good old days. 
The ostensible justification of the expending of 
public money on the restoration of the ancient 
works is to benefit the poor people who still linger 
upon the parched places where plenty once prevailed. 
Yet how is it possible for these poor parangi- 
stricken, destitute people to buy the lands, or even 
to provide the scanty stock to work them, or to 
wait for the harvests ? What mockery it is to offer 
the land on such terms, either to them or to their 
compatriots in villages whose lands have long been 
insufficient to support the natural increase of their 
population 1 Let the Government follow Mr. 
De Soysa's splendid example, and ; finish their work, 
by making the lands tenantable, and by offering them 
on terms that oould be accepted. Then hundreds 
of villages throughout the country might have 
effectual relief, and thousands of villagers would 
have honest employment, to whom the jails now 
offer subsistence, diet, and homes which, miserable 
though they be, are immeasurably better than any 
others they can command. G. W. 
THE EXPORT TRADE FROM THE 
MALABAR COAST, 1887-88 : COFEE, 
AND PEPPER. 
Tellicherry, 24th Oct., 1888. 
Deae Sib, — We have the pleasure to hand you 
herewith our Annual Statement of Exports of Coffee 
and Pepper from the West Coast for the year end- 
ing 30th June last, which may be of interest to 
you. You will gather from the figures that the 
exports of both these products are in excess of 
the quantities shipped in any of the five preceding 
years as shown in the Statement, and we may 
add for ten years previous to those during which 
we kept statistics. The Mysore Coffee crops last 
year were exceptionally good, the result being that 
the shipments from Mangalore were very heavy, 
and as has been the case of late years, a consider- 
able portion of the native coffee found its way 
to Tellicherry for shipment, thence to Europe : this 
accounts to a large extent for the imports deducted 
from the Tellicherry totals. Pepper is becoming 
more and more an important item in the exports from 
Malabar, and the shipments of this product is steadily 
increasing at Tellicherry and Cannanore, and seeing 
that each year is bringing a larger acreage under 
cultivation, there is no doubt that a bigger busi- 
ness in this article may be looked for. 
The coming Coffee crops in both Mysore and 
Coorg, we anticipate, willcornpare unfavourably with 
last year: this applies more especially to estates 
belonging to native owners, which are not so highly 
cultivated as those of Europeans ; but as a con- 
siderable extent of new coffee is coming into bear- 
ing, the shortage may not be so apparent as would 
otherwise have been the case— Yours faithfully, 
p. pra. ALSTON, LOW & Co., 
Ralph Tatham. 
Messrs. Alston, Low & Co.'s Annual Statement 
of Coffee and Peppeb Expobted from the Mala- 
bar Coast during Season ending 30th June 1888 : — 
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