26 
Estates’ Incomes Compare!). 
withstands and will never escape so long as lie has to earn his bread as 
a labourer under the scorching sun in the plantation fields.* 
95. England’s grand achievement that restored to millions the human 
rights of which they had been robbed, has at any rate proved a grievous 
blow to all West Indian Colonies because it undermined the basis upon 
which they had been founded and had flourished. Life must bud afresh 
from a healthier germ for the growth of which Guiana again, to a large 
extent, bears all the favourable conditions. South America has as yet 
had no history of its own but there is a very rich harvest gathering to- 
ward its development as soon as all the contradictions with which its 
political expansion is still burdening her, can be overcome. 
9G. The extraordinary decline in profit and income that took place 
throughout all the Estates immediately after emancipation is shewn in 
the accompanying 12-year review, based on the official data with which 
I was most readily furnished on making application for them. The total 
amount of annual income is estimated by the total customs duties levied 
on similar quantities of the staple products mentioned : — 
TOTAL OF ALL ESTATES’ INCOMES FOE THE YEARS 1831 TO 1843. 
Year. 
Sugar in 
Durch lbsf 
Rum in 
Gallons. 
Molasses 
in 
Gallons. 
Coffee 
in 
Dutch lbs. J 
Cotton 
in 
Dutch lbs. 
Estimated 
value of 
whole 
in 
Dollars. 
From sale 
Plantains 
and Cattle 
and other 
Agricul. 
produce in 
Dollars. 
Total iu- 
come in so 
far as it is 
determined 
by customs 
duties in 
Dollars. 
1831 
97,050,196 
4,261,864 
3,140,149 
2,825,070 
834,123 
4,501 ,297 
318,403 
1,827,083 
1832 
96,381,959 
2,820,594 
4,502,473 
6,410,535 
1,157,709 
7,659,267 
293,134 
1,442,750 
1833 
99,106,827 
2,516,138 
5,121,301 
4,490,596 
954,957 
7,693,108 
258,789 
1,326,166 
183 4 
81,085,483 
2,631,630 
3,288,586 
3,C35,556 
926,944 
6,035,556 
1,343,666 
1835 
107,586,405 
3,743, 6S7 
3,105,421 
3,065,742 
867,942 
8,467,371 
252,758 
1,279,417 
1836 
107,806,249 
2,980,296 
4,035,569 
4,275,732 
656,902 
10,231,639 
245,233 
1,459,833 
1837 
99,851,195 
1,975,260 
3,405,906 
4,066,200 
803,200 
9,076,234 
355,306 
1,397,066 
1838§ 
88,664885 
2,086,052 
3,132,675 
3,143,543 
614,920 
7,212,274 
254,669 
2;425,958 
1839 
60,061,240 
2,328,566 
1,349,012 
3,008,978 
2S5,942 
6,586,776 
398,580 
2,815,876 
1840 
62,031,921 
2,102,378 
1,801,742 
1,693,309 
60,490 
8,098,771 
344,377 
2,525,598 
1841 
52,043,897 
1,543,652 
1,584,806 
1,214,010 
19,200 
4,583,370 
361,450 
2,058,878 
1812 
54,674,009 
1,470,830 
2,020.354 
1,924,218 
3,008 
§ = Emancipation of tlie Slaves. 
t = 100 lbs. Dutch = 110 English (or 105.8 Leipzig pounds avoirdupois.) 
J = Exclusive of the remaining agricultural income. 
, £ i ür ?P ealls 1 : } ve h ve d for generations in Barbados, for example, without mental or 
physical degeneration. Probably, if Malaria chiefly, but also the other preventable diseases, 
were eliminated, this Colony would be found to be almost as wholesome a place for the 
European as his native home. (E.G.E.) 
