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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[October i, 1891 
THE rilOl’OSED I’LANTIXG ENTERPIUSE 
IN PERU. 
In a letter which we publish today, ns well as 
in productions previously publiohed, a former well- 
known, intelligent and oxperiouced Uajlon planter 
eiugs the praises ol the land of the Incas, from 
its Pacific shores to its Trans-Andcan expanses 
of exceptionally fertile soil under a climate (which, 
with a obarauturistic ebullit oa of disappointment) 
ha contrasts with ihat of Thsmanio, which some- 
times tastes of the Antaretic it faces described 
by him as just perfection, — to a man, he means, 
who has spent a large portion of his hie 
in a tropical hill country, where torrid heat 
is tempered by cooluess due to altitude. 
But even in Peru extrema altitude can produce 
cold as intense as arctic or autarolie blasts. 
One account runs . — 
In alt the lower regions of the country the 
climate is warm, but healthy ; in the uplands, 
and on the hio'hest plateaux, it is oltcn iuclemout. 
Violent storms beat upon the plain oi Titicaca and 
terrific tempests, eoroiupauied with thunder and 
liglitiiing, roll frequently around tim table-lands of 
I’a^eo ; where, indeed, the climite la so cold, 
that but for the mines, which have attracted hither 
a numerous popu ation, this region 'might have re- 
maiued neiuhabited. 
The s.tme as to cold may bo said of Tasmania and 
its exceedingly tieU mining regions whiob will yet en- 
able it to rival vvliat Peru wus in the days of its glory, 
Un soil and olimatc, natural produetious and euit- 
ability for the oulturo of such produots as coffee, 
tea, cacao and the like, cur friend is an excellent 
authority. But he says nothing of the malaria, 
wbioh is not likely all to have forsaken the jungles 
of tiouth sVmorica, since the euro of the Cuunteas 
of Chiuohoii, wife of llie Spanish Viceroy, gave its 
name (mutilated by Litimous) to the valuable 
fever bark whieh, native speeiuJly to Peru and Bolivia, 
has been, mainly by the enterprise of Ceylon planters 
placed within reach of the sick poor, instead ol bmug 
the exponeivo luxury of the rich. Mr. Sinoiair’s 
projudioes against the nalivo " Indians ” (not a 
merely mutilated but an absolutely misappropriated 
name), ha avows, wore removed by an inoidoiit 
which is interesting us showing that “ one touch 
of nature " in the shape of hospitality “ m ikes 
the whole world kin.” But it has yet to 
be proved that the Indians will prove to bo 
good labourers on estates, or that labour other- 
wise is abundantly available. But granting that 
the reports brought up by the Oeilon trained 
spies of tho land of promise are favourable un 
the points adverted to, we are reminded by the 
telegram just received of a fatal and devastating 
ear.iiquuke, that ualuie in America can iu a 
moment exchange placid beauty for the most terribly 
dostruutive and relentlessly cruel letting loose of 
foroes, which space neither property nor life, but 
entomb human hsings in the ruitis of their abod' s. 
Nature, iu fiiot, is seizid by recurring fits of 
anarchy, a oharaoteristio which the volcanic Andes 
seem to have imparted to the rices who dwell 011 
their slopes or inhabit tho pUius at their base. 
Our oorroaponilent gives a painful aooount of tho 
efloots of the war waged by Chile against Beru on 
tho latter oouutry, for which it is possible thot 
Chile has just been auejooted, by way of retribution 
to the unutterable horrors of civil war. 
The ocourrenoe of similar horrors iu Beru 
ace not only possible, but, judging by tho past, 
probable. In the striio ol factions, equally reckless 
of piiiioiple, wbat would be the fate of foreign wealth 
invested 111 plaiiiatious and stores ? Would ei her or 
both parties to civil strife hesitato to confiscate 
to their own use capital or properly ? Such are 
a lew of the I'fleolions per contra to tho para- 
disaical descriptions of our gifted correspondent 
wbicli occur to us. We shall await the regular 
report, but at the moment we are inclined to 
think that Ceylon aud other B'itiah poesossions, 
oven poor unprogressive Tasmania, have advantages 
ol their own: a negative one in the absence of 
eartliquakes natural or political. 
TUB DUTCH MARKET. 
Amsterdam, .\ugust 13, 
Cinchona — Tho oiuchona bark sales, which will bo 
held in Amsterdain on September 3, 1891, will couBiab 
of 2,880 b.ilei and 199 cases, about 216 toes bark, 
among which from Govecnnieiit plantations, 278 bales 
77 oiBUB, about 29 tons ; lor private plaii'ations, 2,408 
bales 122 oases, about 217 tons. Tho bark iso imposed 
as follows •.—Brw.5r//i,vf3’ hark: Suocirubra quill., 178 
esses ; broken qudls and clop-, lOd b.lea 0 cases ; root, 
42 bii'es. Manufacturing hark : OUiciualia hr ikeii qudls 
and Culps, 30 ales j L. dgeiiaiia quills. 3 cases ; broken 
quiUs and chips, 1 505 halo.s ; ro. t, C I8 bales ; hybrid 
quills, 12 o.asos : brok>-n quills and cbipq 183 bales ; root, 
117 b-l'B, Total, 2,680 hales 199 oases. — VhomiH undL 
BARK AND DRUG REPORT. 
(From the Chemist and Drur/gist.J 
Lonuon, Aug. 2'Jnd, 1891. 
A.vnatTO, — Eijrhly-tbro© lUy ocl.)iiry t-ool, 
frem UoyluU, nold ut ajl i).*r lb. loJay ; unother smlllor, 
tatlit-r Uulltr, rHabaod iit, por lb. Sjveuty fjur ba-keu 
ot wbuC nuiy onca have ih ou lir<t7.ilian ruU antiaitu (•* md 
of it wuB lit iSbOj woru off'irHfi wilbout reserve, 
hut only one idl old hard red aai.ubio (1871 import )sold. It 
hroujiht fid p^r lb. 
tiALUMiu.— Of idl p:icl(a^t-s offered today, only IG add, 
withi-uirvaeiv.*, ail7a dd per uwt.t'uf ordinary hrownisli aul 
fil'KhUy wurmy root. Uojd uashod Milted calutuba wai 
bought In ai 5.>a per cvvt. lodny. 
Caui?amuM 4.— The euppiy at today's aactioas waa small 
—Duly 72 paekages ; bm at. me parcels aiHud over uaiil to- 
morrow. Prioea M'o gerimvl'y 131 lo d I por lb. ulvuuce. 
Thy roll fwing pneOH were paid Vlaii«aljrt:- hnruutor, 
pala round medium, 2d 6i ; aniall 28 p.r ;b. (bul-l are 
liold for 81) ; spilt aud spvcky, 1» tl.i perJb. Ccylou- 
AlyMJlv, bold pUo fuiiud, 3 j &d; uiodium Mzo, ys 4 1 to 23 &d; 
rraall to m*)diuu>, pdo long uin ihia m xoJ, 2s to is 
Id; yellow mixed, Is JOl to la lid; yul ow aud 
brown, partly apllr. Is 6d to Is 61; ruLhsr be.ior ditto. 
Is 8i p' r lb. Coylou-Mulabar, amall to medium, ►.ool 
plump yellow, 'is 3d to 2 h 4tl ; very tiuail round, l3 ad to U 6d; 
Split dull browu hpseky, Is 01 per lb. Seeda Bold very high, 
et vs 2d per lb. 
COOCULUB INDICILS.— Tho price ii still rising slowly. At 
today's s ‘lt'8, 20 I as 4 S leftlistd 1 1.3 p.H* cwr. 
OiL-s (lisSK.sTiAi.j.— Jitroociu oil IU tios is hold fur 
ll-lbU per uz. 
(^UiNixic.-Tho marKet has aicliool further, and lOd 
pur k/. wtiM aocoptid 10 ? German bu lj on thi su.it early 
in tho Week, (.inuu whrii ubjut 100,0 .U oz. hiive cbaucei 
hands at that hgure. A. Bile of iO,O0J uz N ^Vciuber-Ueceiu jer 
is aim reported, at lO^d pir oz. 
^y^lILE NKWS comes from the VVynaad that the 
coffee crop there is goiug to be a bumper one we 
are also told that gold isdieappointing iti soarcherB, 
Ever^ one who is anyone in goulogioalcirolea admits 
that there are uch Qurituroua deposits in the 
Wynaad tract, but tho amount of capital required 
to properly develop the gold industry has never 
yot been utilised there, and bad refauUs are the 
oouBequQDceB. Some of ihe mines there arc doing 
so indifferently that large numbers of hands have 
been turned adrift to swell tho vast aud diacou- 
tented ranks of tho unemployed. Some very hopeful 
planters toll ub the El Dorada days of coffee planting 
are coming back to Wynaad. “ Oh I let it be s oon,” 
— Malabar h^pectator. 
