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NUTMEGS AND MACE 
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Banda 
. 400,000 
Sumatra . 
. 190,000 
Minahassa 
. 100,000 
Java 
. .50,000 
Amboyna 
. 80,000 
Halmaheira 
Total 
. 30,000 
. 850,000 
and tlie following figures are taken from his table of the 
production of nutmegs and mace from the Moluccas in 
Amsterdam pounds : — 
Nutmegs shelled. 
Mace. 
1820 
. 200,000 lb. 
75,000 lb. 
1830 
. 195,-348 „ 
58,357 „ 
1840 
. 511,001 „ 
119,260 „ 
1850 
. 557,434 „ 
128,345 „ 
1860 
. 1,072,765 „ 
275,586 „ 
1871 
. 946,000 „ 
232,000 „ 
1880 
. 937,000 „ 
260,000 „ 
1890 
. 1,028,000 „ 
. 1,329,000 „ 
272,000 „ 
1894 
278,000 ., 
The Malay Peninsula . — The cultivations of Penang 
and Singapore commenced to show results in the markets 
of Europe in 1830. The exports are given by Warburg 
as follows in kilograms : — 
Nutmegs. 
Mace. 
1830-1839. Penang . 
1840-1849. „ . . . 
„ „ Singapore 
1850-1859. Penang. 
,, „ Singapore 
1860. Penang . 
26.000 kgs. 
86.000 „ 
15,000 „ 
263.000 „ 
120.000 „ 
391,000 „ 
7.000 kgs. 
26,000 „ 
4.000 „ 
70.000 „ 
30.000 „ 
131,000 „ 
Then followed the collapse of the nutmeg plantations 
in Penang and Singapore, from which the latter island 
never recovered. Penang, however, produced, in 1875 
to 1885, 14,000 kilograms of nutmegs and 37,000 
kilograms of mace, and in 1885 to 1894 the Malay 
