The evening times., 1899-07-14

tropical fruits already mentioned. dye
woods, cabinet woods, spices, and other
valuable tropical products. The coffee rails
ed in certain districts of the Blue Noun
tains brings, ii is said, the highest price
paid for coffee in the London market. The
exports from Jamaica in the year 1881 IS
included S5,410 hundredweight of coffee,
445, sec pounds sterling of bananas, 11,533,-
726 cocoanuts, 8S,013,091 oranges, LAOS, 166
pounds of ginger, 1.379,27S gallons of rum,
2S4, ,375 hundredweight of raw sugar, 42,600
tons Of logwood, and 3S.S2S hundredweight
of pimento. The total value of the exports
OF 1897 '9S was 91, ; ,44S, ,443 and of the i'm
ports sI660,667. The imports included
80 657 hundredweight of bread and biscuits,
1898 hundredweight of butter and COM
pounds, sc, ,62S tons of coal and coke, 3OO,-
4O1 bushels of corn, 81 ,0S3 barrels of meal,
20S, ,317 pounds sterling of cotton manufac-
lures, 1852 hundredweight of dried or
salted fish, 1916 barrels of flour, 2S,424
pounds sterling of hardware and cutlery,
35,775 pounds sterling of linen manufac-
lures, millinery, and haberdashery, $780,
600 feet of lumber, $500, 900 pounds Of rice,
and 2, ,403, 120 pounds of soap. OF the L.
666, ,667 pounds sterling value Of importa-
tons in 1898, 776,SS9 pounds in value was
from the United Kingdom, 719,76S from the
United States, 11S,S9S from British North
sterling value of exports in 1898. 313, S53
pounds went to the United Kingdom and
.s32 to the United States.
Jamaica was discovered by Columbus on
May g. 1884, taken possession of by the
Spaniards in 1909, but taken in 1866 by a
British expedition sent out by Cromwell,
which, after an unsuccessful attempt to
capture the island Of San Domingo seized
Jamaica, which has since been held by the
British government, having been ceded to
England in 1870.
THE Island of Barbados with whose
government reciprocity treaty has al
ready been signed, lies on the east of a
chain of islands which stretches south
wardly from Porto Rico to the coast OF
South America, and which geographers di-
vide into "Windward" and 'Leeward''
groups. Its population is, according to the
Statesmen's Year Book of 1899, about 190,-
600; its area about 166 square miles, and
the area under cultivation about LOG, 47O
acres. The staple product of the island is
sugar, about 10000 acres being annually
planted with sugar cane which yielded in
1887, 5S, 600 hogsheads of sugar, as against
sc. 451 in 1895, and 49,399 in 1885, There
are AL sugar works and rum distilleries
Sugar is the chief export, though 1880
tons of 'manjak' or glance pitch'-a BIZ
luminous petroleum for fuel-was exported
in 1897. In the exports of that year were
56.397 hogsheads Of raw sugar, valued at
81. .05s. 417 2.203 hogsheads of other sugar
valued at 20.426; 37,432 puncheons of
molasses valued at $41S976; 45.449 quin-
tails of dried fish, valued at S222, ,502 and
considerable quantities of COAL corn, -four,
and manufactured articles, much of which
was apparently imported into Barbados
and distributed thence to others of the
West India group. The imports included
3.947. .76l pounds Of bread and biscuit, 770,-
$50 pounds Of butter and compounds, 49,
74s tons OF coal aid coke. s04.s7S bushels
OF corn and other grain. 4668S barrels of
Indian cornmeal, 55.0S9 barrels of -four,