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taste strong of turpentine, and are not improved by the addi- 
tional pungency of pepper. 
Assiduity and cleanliness are essentially necessary in a pepper 
garden; not a weed is permitted to grow; the produce, however, 
amply compensates the trouble: for although the Anjengo pepper 
is not so much esteemed as that produced at Onore and Carwar, 
it is sold, on an average, at eighty rupees a candy; five hundred 
and sixty English pounds weight. It is treason to destroy a 
pepper-vine in Travencore, where the king monopolizes that 
branch of commerce; but permits the merchants of Anjengo to 
have a free trade with his subjects in cassia, coir, cables and cord- 
age, made from the outer husk of the cocoa-nut. 
As warehousekeeper at Anjengo, I received all the pepper 
purchased by the Company from the king of Travencore; whose 
agents brought it to the warehouses, and delivered it by the maund, 
a weight of twenty-eight pounds: I kept a particular account of 
the quantity annually received from the Travencore country, toge- 
ther with the average price, per candy; but the changes in Mala- 
bar, since the death of Tippoo Sultan, render those documents 
less interesting than the observations at a later period by Dr. F. 
Buchanan, respecting the general produce of pepper in the Mala- 
bar province, which has now become a national concern. 
“ Before the invasion of Hyder Ally, in 1764, that country 
produced annually about fifteen thousand candies, of six hun- 
dred and forty pounds each: from that period the crop has gra- 
dually diminished to half the quantity: so that a good season 
will now produce only eight thousand candies; a bad one not 
more than four thousand. Europeans usually purchase about 
