The Arizona champion., 1891-02-07
FROM OVER THE SEA.
Articles of Commerce from
 the Tropics.
HOW THE HlHDOOS GATHER THE GOGOARUT
Ports Where Clearing Papers From
 America are Seldom Used.

The marine investigator at Sandy Hook, casting his eyes seaward the other day, spied something which unaccustomed eyes would not have seen. He clapped his glasses, fine double extra power ones, to his eyes and stood in a posture of scru- tiny for many moments.
 Its a bark, " says he, still focusing his glasses on the distant object.
 4 shadowy substance began to appear on the horizon. The eye of the landsman would have simply noted that something that sailed was approaching.
 ''She's Nova Scotian, ' was the laconic utterance that came from beneath the binoculars.
 'Then it's the Strathay, now due," was the equally laconic outcome of 8 marine encyclopedia who stood near.
 Pretty soon the bark's sails loomed up against the horizon and she came whoop- ing along in spanking breeze to the lower bay. She was the Strathay, ninety days from India's coral strand, and she bore a royal cargo. When Capt. Urqu- hart got his quarantine papers he brought his vessel in tow of a tug, her streamers flying, up to Brooklyn pier, and long sea voyage was ended.
 The Strathay comes from ports whence clearing papers from America are seldom issued She has been in the dismal and frightfully hot harbors of AIipee and Cochin, on the Malabar coast, in the southern part of India.
 CEYLoN's SPICY BREEzEs.
 She had lain for days getting the spicy breezes of Ceylon at Columbo, and the blood heat rays of the sun, and there took in 1000 barrels of plumbago. Then in southern India, where the man eating -crockodile abounds, and sharks turn on their bellies and swallow men at a crunch | ing gulp, she found 1,200 barrels of CO., coanut oil, which will be evolved into | American soap, and great quantity of the mating that is made from the fibrous i bark of the cocoanut. Then the Strathay | was ready to make for civilization and | New York, and she came along with some | rip-roaring breezes, 8 great commerce | bearer, under foreign flag.
 Only two or three vessels arrive from . Alipee and Cochin in the course of a year. | The freights of these are consigned to the . firms who virtually monopolize trade from | this quarter.
 There are no harbors at these ports, and | vessels are obliged to anchor two miles | of in the open sea. Though havenless | the land is Assured with many lagoons or | backwaters. The country is low and 1 sandy and covered with luxuriant vegeta- tion and vast forests of palm trees. From . the latter are obtained the chief com modities of commerce. The straight . stemmed trees are from forty to eighty . feet high, and the natives climb these . with the aid of a short cord, connecting . their big toes, which helps ascension by l fitting them into grooves of the bark. ! After the nuts are knocked off the thick | husks are separated from the inner shell . by sharp iron spikes, and then laid in pits dug along the seashOre, where the salt l water macerates them. When the husks become sufficiently pliable they are taken out and beaten with clubs, which com pletely parts the fiber from the pithy portion. It is then thoroughly cleaned | and dried, and known as khaiT or coir, and is twisted into yarn and then woven | into mating. The kernels, by hydraulic | pressure, yield the oil now so much used | by American soap makers, as it produces | soap capable of floating upon water. | Thousands of Hindoos, male and female, | are employed in these industries by the . white merchants. They are very dOcile, | exist on rice, fish and fruits, and receive . equivalent to five or six cents for their | daily wage.
 sPECULAToRs' MISTAKE.
 Two or three years ago great specula- tion took place in the raw fiber, and ! thousands of bales were imported and | held with the expectation that it would | figure largely in mattress stuffing and | kindred uses. This was not realized, i owing to the fiber's lack of elasticity, and . spectators lost heavily. It is said that . the French are beginning to make cui- rasses of it for their ironclads, as it offers . more resistance than steel to a cannon | ball, and greater value may be put upon ! 1t in the future.
 Other articles of commerce seldom | heard of come from this far of shore. | Cus-cus, a fragrant root from which . sachet powder is made; citrOnella and | lemon grass oils, also used in perfumery; ! the button like seeds of nux vomica, con- taining the principle of strychnine; carda- | mons, cinchona and turmeric, a yellow | root used in dyeing, ard which is said to i be used in the adulteration of mustard.
 Eight white people and 90,000 natives | compose the population of Alipee. About | Seventy-flve different castes are repre- scented. The climate is tropical but . healthy. Melting eyes and well favored . forms are reported to be characteristics of | the Hindoo females. These are possibly . SundnCeu Dy Lne AulGeu lnNeuuOIy Ol dp- |, parel, palm leaf or two covering the . whole body. The sailors are not proof | against their seductions, and rigorous | measures have to be taken for their re- straint. The mate of the Strathay, bronzed Scotchman, said to a reporter |. sadly:
 'Th' weemen played the deevil wi the | sailor ladsi An, coodna gang asnoor the | tWintY days we were of tn port, for ma | time was taken cop watchin' 'emI Why, | mon, we had to faWsten the chield's | hawnd an flute, an even then, wad ye think it, twa O lem breaks loose, jumps over the side and swums awa' to the shoor | an w never clapt cen on lem afterr'- New York Evening Sun.
 Tricks of Chinese Traders.