Nov.  i,  1892.] 
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IV. 
Estimate  op  TEA  Consumption  of  the  World. 
lb. 
Australasia  a . . 
32,000,000 
British  North  America  b .. 
21,000,000 
British  West  Indies,  Guiana,  and 
Honduras  . . 
300,000 
British  West  and  South  Africa  and 
adjacent  Isles  c .. 
3,000,000 
West-Central  Asia,  apart  from 
Russia  d 
3.000,000 
Thibet,  Persia,  and  East  Asia 
outside  China 
40,000,000 
Ceylon  e 
600,000 
China/  
800,000,000 
Europe,  Continent  of  (apart  from 
Russia)  <7 
18,000,000 
India  
3,000,000 
Japan  
55,000,000 
Java  
2,000,000 
North  Africa  (Morocco,  Egypt,  drc.) 
1,000,000 
Russia  (in  Europe  and  Asia)  h . . 
South  American  States! 
78,000,000 
15,250,000 
Straits  Settlements  and  Eastern 
Archipelago  
1,000,000 
United  Kingdom  j 
210,000,000 
Channel  Islands 
750,000 
United  States,  with  Pacific  Coast  h 
76,000,000 
Total  lb 
1,359,90,0000 
a Australasia  now  gets  9 to  10  million  lb.  Indian 
and  Ceylon  tea,  the  rest  from  China  and  Japan. 
h Canada  gets  8 million  lb.  tea  from  the  United 
Kingdom,  and  13  from  China  and  Japan. 
c Two  million  lb.  are  reported  as  imports  into  Cape 
Colony  and  Natal. 
cl  Afghanistan,  and  territory  beyond,  get  1 million 
lb.  Indian  tea  and  li  China  through  India. 
e Tea  is  taking  the  place  of  coffee  among  the 
natives  of  Ceylon  and  India  as  a drink. 
j See  note  to  China  under  Production. 
<j  Germany  4J  million  lb. ; Holland  5J  ; Denmark  1 ; 
Norway  and  Sweden  1 ; France  1|;  Austria  1J;  Spain 
and  Portugal  1 ; rest  3. 
h Half  this  quantity  is  conveyed  overland  from 
China  via  Siberia,  and  the  other  half  by  sea  through 
the  Black  and  Baltic  Seas  (Odessa  and  Kronstadt) 
or  through  Germany.  Tea  cost  Russia  about  6 
million  pounds  sterling  per  annum  some  time  ago, 
i Including  the  consumption  of  Mate  tea. 
j In  1717  the  tea  sold  in  England  was  700,000  lb. : 
in  1787  it  had  risen  to  19  million  lb.  received 
in  27  ships.  In  1886-7  the  deliveries  were  over  221 
million  lb. ; but  in  1887-8,  through  the  use  of  more 
of  the  stronger  India  tea,  the  total  fell  to  218,200,000 
lb.  (86  million  Indian,  117  China,  12|  Ceylon,  3 
Java).  In  1887  the  United  Kingdom  home  consump- 
tion was  183,630,000  lb. ; export  34,741,000  lb. ; tran- 
shipped 9,014,000  lb.;  total  227,391,000  lb.  In  1891 
the  total  imports  were  239,345,774  lb.,  deliveries  for 
home  consumption  200,065,005  lb.,  for  re-export 
32,983,334  lb.  Of  the  home  consumption  97,854,612  lb. 
were  Indian,  51,393,481  lb.  Ceylon,  48,950,5541b.  China, 
1,866,358  lb.  other  countries." 
Y. 
Some  of  the  Staple  Exports  from  Ceylon,  with  their  Distribution,  for  the  year  1891;  compared  with 
the  total  Exports  of  the  same  in  each  of  the  three  previous  years. 
Countries. 
Coffee,  cwt. 
Cin- 
chona. 
Tea. 
^ocoa. 
Carda- 
moms. 
Cinnamon. 
Coco- 
nut Oil. 
Plum* 
bago. 
Planta- 
tion. 
Native. 
Total. 
Branch  & 
Trunk, lb. 
lb. 
cwt. 
lb. 
Bales 
lb. 
Chips 
Jb. 
cwt. 
cwt, 
To  United  Kingdom.. 
63,429 
2,000 
63,629 
4,945,557 
63,744,987 
17,415 
150,879 
1,177,559 
260,078 
133,232 
155,343 
Austria 
4,923 
195 
5,118 
145,008 
, . 
4,088 
6,300 
21.290 
17,693 
Belgium 
18 
2 
20 
293,800 
85 
68,500 
5,600 
4,312 
9,958 
France 
209 
27 
306 
3,362 
21,210 
1.49 
136,400 
30,364 
3,002 
Germany  . . 
114 
302 
416 
92,291 
275 
2,701 
467,965 
126,784 
18,984 
34,636 
Holland 
• . 
. . 
21,438 
2,280 
. . 
944 
Italy 
Russia 
55 
, , 
55 
4,649 
t , 
, , 
126,300 
164,584 
5,969 
i . 
, , 
. . 
11,230 
. . 
. . 
50 
95,200 
5,512 
. , 
Spain 
• . 
. . 
. . 
. . 
16,995 
. . 
. . 
81,000 
. . 
• • 
, . 
Sweden 
. , 
. . 
. « 
300 
. , 
, , 
• • 
. , 
Turkey 
ioo 
100 
4,211 
. . 
89 
• . 
• • 
India 
1,930 
2,927 
4,857 
549,579 
, . 
244,679 
188 
44,272 
, , 
106,936 
307 
Australia  . . 
9,733 
1,449 
11,182 
3,210,598 
. . 
8,820 
11,148 
2,341 
109,994 
687 
America  . . 
259 
50 
309 
407,414 
163,137 
2,609 
7,643 
290 
92,100 
188,295 
Africa 
127 
, , 
127 
, , 
70,828 
, , 
33 
China 
110 
110 
163,041 
• . 
525 
100,368 
. „ 
1,455 
Singapore  . . 
35 
35 
. . 
3,318 
84 
140 
58 
Mauritius  . . 
263 
1.45 
408 
. . 
68,783 
, . 
. , 
. , 
. . 
Malta 
•• 
• • 
2,000 
•• 
Total  Exports  from 
Jan,  1 to  Dec.  31,1891. 
‘ 81,225 
5,467 
89,692 
5,679,339 
68,274,420 
20,532 
422,109 
2,309,774 
588,264 
409,251 
400.268 
Do  1890. 
79,038 
2,927 
81,965 
8,655,99C 
45,943,469 
14,888 
365,606 
1,839,814 
435,847 
340.371 
372,602 
Do  1889. 
81,416 
4,583 
86,117 
9,433,71E 
38,337,145 
18,742  295,095 
2.279,284 
518,536 
327,652 
452,224 
Do  1888. 
130,469 
8,814 
139,283 
12,251,120 
23,670,268 
12,936.260,443 
1,657,332 
465,852 
365,852 
215,764 
VI. 
Principal  Recent  Works  on  Ceylon  op 
Interst  to  the  Visitor  or  Intending  Settler. 
“ Murray’s  Handbook  for  India  and  Ceylon,”  1891. 
“ Fifty  Years  in  Ceylon.”  An  autobiography  by 
the  late  Major  Thomas  Skinner,  C.M.G.  [W.  H. 
Allen  & Co  , 1891  ] 
“Two  Happy  Years  in  Ceylon,”  (Illustrated.)  By 
Miss  Gordon  Cummiug.  [Blackwoods,  1891.] 
“Palms  and  Pearls,  or  Scenes  in  Cejlon.”  (Illus- 
trated.) By  Alan  Walters.  [R.  Bent'ey  & Sons,  1892.] 
“ About  Ceylon  and  Borneo.”  (Illustrated.)  By 
Walter  J.  Clutterbuck.  [Longmans,  1891.] 
“Ceylon  in  1893.”  (Illustrated.)  By  John 
Perguion.  Being  a fourth  edition  of  a Popular 
History  and  Guide  to  the  Island.  (In  the  press.) 
[John  Haddon  & Co.,  London.] 
“ The  Ceylon  Handbook  and  Directory  for  1891  and 
1892.”  By  A.  M.  & J.  Ferguson.  [John  Haddon  & 
Co.,  London.] 
“Guide  to  Colombo*”  By  Geo.  Skeen.  [John 
Haddon  & Co.,  London.] 
“Guide  to  Kandy  and  Nuwara  Eliya.”  By  S. 
M.  Burrows.  [John  Haddon  & Co.,  London.] 
“The  Buried  Cities  of  Ceylon."  By  S.  M 
Burrows.  [John  Haddon  dr  Co.,  London.] 
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