i88 THE TROPICAL 
fepoDflibiUty in the Nyaealaod Protectorate," and 
that " the reveriioQ of the Ucd " is with tbem, The 
i^noraut applsaee this evoked is (aid to have been 
extravagHnt, and to ug fallB the difficult task ol 
enliKhteciiDg the Briti'-h public. 
The Churches tbemaelvea bsve sunk alwut £200,000 
iu money ; bow much more io men ! and this money 
is cot lost, it ia inveHted lawfully, urtder British sanc- 
tion in every note of it, and is recoverable. What 
else meaijs the faot that the only place where Mr. 
Rhodes can place his soldirrs is in BlaDiyr*;. They 
cannot exist aoywhere else. H« has oot leut 'hem to 
ua ; we have rather lent him these hills tor b rmcka ; 
•lid an element of ditturbance and danger h 'S been 
quartered upon as against our will. There are three 
and a half million coffee planta (almost all of tbem 
descended from one Mission tree), and these '•honld 
yield even this year their £18,000 ; and this is uothii g 
to the money sunk, by Lakes' Oompaoy, by Ir4ders 
and planters and by others. Blantjre is the only 
aunexable i^pot in the whole of Central Africa, and 
the annezable in it in not land, not people, but that 
which baa been made into a property by the life and 
labours of seventeen years' 'vork. 'Who is " the con- 
ofEBion hunter" which Mr. Khodes so unsparingly 
condemns? Who with a miserable "bit of paper" 
from "some wretched native" wants to "climb opon 
the b tcka of thoee who have done all the work " and 
to '-i.Hp all the profits"? Who but Mr. Khodes 
hitf sell. 
Not a foot of land had Mr. Khodes in the country 
until six mouths ago, and then it was • small holding 
at CLiitomo bonght for him by Mr. Johnston, not a 
share in the conntry nntil be managed to out man- 
oeuvre the Lakes' Oonijauy and gel a sbarii of their 
busineEs. Tbe Sbire bigbUiKU are not toucbed by bis 
Charter i or bas be ■ peony worth of claim on the Ian'. 
Quinine is considered by the people alaost one of 
their own medicines now : and they have their own 
ways of taking it. We beard of one patient taking it io 
pala (grael.) The reader must expresa for himself 
bis idea of the taste, we cannot. 
From Mr. Lionel Decle we have recfived io great 
kindness the donation of £2 28. 
He is travelling through thu c untry a.i a scientist 
for the French Guvernnient. He has a series of 
most interesting photos of Zimbabwe ruins, Victoria 
falla, «nd drawings of various types of Afi ican tribes. 
Mlanje Station. — Kcad-making in our neighbour- 
hood goes on apace. Uuder contract with Goveru- 
nient Mr. Brown is pusliing on the read to the Mlanje 
plateau and soon the fagged-oat and lever-stricken 
from other places will tind their way by an easy 
route t> the home-like climate of our mountain-top. 
Mr. Angus, on behalf of Mr. Moir. is also busy on the 
ocntract-road between Blauiyre and Mlanje. 
OoFFEB. — Cholo, — or to be phonetically preciie, Chyo- 
lo is wiihont doubt the coffee garden of the Sbire 
hills. The native carriers (and there is no better judge 
of good soil than the Aftican) declared it to be the 
'• home of coffee." Nowhere had they seen soil so rich 
lior water so plentiful as along the banks of the upper 
waters of tbe Mbwazi river. To the eouth towards to 
the Buo the conntry beoomea very rough, and the 
useful gives pUce to tbe picturesque. On tbe journey 
cut they kept to the high road along the escarpment 
of the plateau. On tbe return journey they followed 
for tbe most part the course of the Ms^azi Kiver. 
Along this latter route we believe an engineer would 
find little or no difficulty iu the way ol constructing 
a good waggon road or even a railroad. Starting 
from Chiroiuo tbe route could follow the present path 
to Mlanje by Zoa as far as the janction of tbe Tuchila 
and Kno. Thence it would follow tbe Tuchila for a 
short distance, ai d then tbe Mswazi by an easy 
gradient, till it reached the level of the Blantyre 
plateau at MaUnduzi: thence to Blantyre, Ohiradz ilo 
and Zomba would be an easy task, and bo from Zomba 
on to the Lake or Upper Shire. In this way the 
road or railway would touch the chief centre; of work 
and trade and ooffte cultivation in the Shire Hills. 
To car y it, as we once heaid : n engineer gravely 
pr^pobe, twice across the I'ucLila Biver a d along 
the Tuchila plain, would be the task ol a Dt Letstpc, 
AGRICULTURIST. ISept i, 1893. 
COFFEE GROWING IN JAVA. 
Reporting on the finanoes of NetberUnda India 
for the year 1893, Sir O. Bonham makea some inter- 
esting remarks on the cultivation of coffee in Java, 
which bad been brought out by a Government com> 
miatiou on tbe subject. Beterring to tbe difficulties a 
coffee planter has to contend with, the fact is etat«d, 
that, as the coffee plant oi.ly comes into bearing iu 
its fourth year, the capital ami labour expended ate 
meanwhile unproductive, a aiate of things rendered 
particulaily uoaatiafactory iu tbe case of the native, 
who is usually entirely destitute of capital or 
ready money, and consequeully baa to borrow if 
poBi-ible. 'I'o Ksaist this class, it baa for some 
years been tlie piactice of tbe goteroment to giv« 
special advantages for tbe growing of intermediate 
crops, I.e., crops grown b(twe«n ibe rows of ooffe« 
plants, but ttiis system ba< aga'u disadvantages. 
The fact that land suitable for coffee cultivation is 
no longer to be found iu the oeigiibourfaood of tha 
villages causes tbe crop to be looked upon a« an 
auxiliary one where the cultivator has other r«- 
sourcea to depend upon. Dur.ng tbe four jeura that 
a planter derives no income from his coffee, he 
devotee his attention to the cultivatioa of iodi- 
geuoua crops, and endB by regarding these at hia 
principal source of income, tbe coffee beiag entirely 
eubetaotially, so that a man may plant as few as fifty 
trees annually, thus leaving himself ample time Io 
grow other crops. The oaie of tbe free coffee 
former is entirely different ; he plants oot by ten«, 
but by hundreds and tbousaods. Coffee planting is 
his principal business, occupying all his time aod 
resources. Tj work any coffee plautations of im 
pcrtance be muot cither have large means or g'>od 
credit to tide bim over the four years of waiting 
for tho fiistfull coffee buveat.—GarcUner't Chronicle, 
July 15. 
THE AMSTERDAM CINCHONA AUCTIONS. 
AuuTEBDAM, July Cth. 
At today's bark auctions 3,4d'J packages Java bark 
sold at a decline, the unit being only 3Jc. (?) per 
half-kilo. Manufacturing bark in quill and chips 
brought Gc. to .S7c. (— Id. to C^d. per lb.) ; ditto 
root, 7c. to 28c. (=1^. to 5d. per lb.) ; druggists' bark 
in quill and chips, 10c. to G5c. (= IJd. to ll^d. per 
lb.); ditto root, (ic. to Uc. (=ld. to 2Jd. per lb.). 
The principal buyers were the Frankfort Quiaine- 
works, Mr. Gnstav Briegleb, the Brunswick, Amster- 
dam, and Auerbach Woika.— Chemist and Draggitt. 
QUININE, &c. 
M e£srB. C. F. Boehriuger & Sohn^, Waldliof near 
M->nuheni, report on lOlh July: — 
Quinine.— Lar<e quantities ol Bark wore brought 
forward in Ibe Ualei> at Amsierdsm. 'ind as sume of 
the growers were oblit;ed to realist: low piiceii bad t'> be 
accepted for the Baik. Quinine luaki r< remoin h jw. 
ever very firm with their quotttions, as ibij ( xcep- 
tionally low fij^ures for the raw mattriiil, which can- 
not p ssibly cover tbe expenses of production, must 
prevent the growers from senling la-ge qnar.fties of 
Bark to £uro| e. Tbe consaniplioo of Quinine is 
steadily increariog und as soon as a few >«ak holders 
of becond hand goods are cleared out, we shall see 
an irop-ovemeiit in the market. 
C.\FiEiN. — The raw mat rials ia gettin*; ver^ scarce 
and ne shall have to raise our qujtatious shortly. 
CocAiM remains firm with a good demand. 
COFFEE NOTES. 
Mexico has recently imposed an export tax on 
coffee, which is eotimated to yield §331,748 on an- 
exportation next year of 11,058,279 kilogrammes. The 
duty is §3.00 pei 100 kilogrammes, net weight. 
An important movement has been initiated in 
QOEumercial circles in tbe United States to seonro 
