VALUABLE TREES. 
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ductions, which are essential to our manufactures and 
commerce. 
The immense primeval forests furnish inexhaustible 
treasures. In addition to the palm-tree, magnificent 
timber for ship-building, and other purposes, in great 
variety ; gums, shea butter, many kinds of wood for 
dying, peppers, nuts of different kinds, &c. ; besides the 
animated tenants of the woods, which would furnish 
ivory, skins, feathers, bees’ wax, &c. These are a few of 
the spontaneous productions; besides which, a vast 
quantity of cleared land would be available for 
increased cultivation of coffee, sugar-cane, indigo, 
tobacco, cotton, &c. 
We wiU enumerate some of the principal goods offered 
by Lander for sale, in the commercial expedition of 
1832 - 3 . 
Arms and ammunition of every kind were eagerly 
sought after; but, as our object is to encourage their 
peaceable habits, these should not be presented to them. 
They would also freely take in barter, wooUen cloths, 
scarlet, gi-een, and yellow ; Manchester printed cottons, 
beads of various kinds, looking-glasses, cutlery, paper, 
salt, &c. 
Of these the following would generally bear a good 
per centage, but others would hardly realize the cost 
price : — 
Scarlet cloth could be sold at from three to four hun- 
dred per cent, invoice price. 
Green cloth one or two hundred per cent. 
