Still the Congo, in spite of this disadvantage, has greater
facilities for transport in the way of waterways than is found east
of the Cross or Cameroon.
{468} Export of coffee from the Gold Coast, 1894, given in the
Colonial Report on that year published in 1896, was of the value of
1,265 pounds 3s. 4d.; cocoa, 546 pounds 17s. 4d. The greater part
of this coffee goes to Germany.
Export of coffee from Lagos, given in Colonial Report for 1892,
published in 1893, was of the value of 12 pounds. No figures on
this subject are given in the 1894 report, published in 1896, but I
cite these figures to show the delay in publishing these reports by
the Colonial Office and the difficulty of getting reliable
statistics on West African trade.
{493} "The Development of Dodos." National Review, March, 1896.
{504} Ethnology, p. 266. A. H. Keane, Cambridge, 1896.
{508} Lagos Annual Consular Report (150, p.6), 1894: "There were
only three cases of drunkenness. Considering that in the Island of
Lagos alone the population is over 33,300, this clearly proves that
drunkenness in this part of Africa is uncommon, and that there is
insufficient evidence for the contention which is advanced that the
native is being ruined by what is so often spoken of as the heinous
gin traffic; it is a well-known fact by those in a position best
able to judge by long residence that the inhabitants of this country
have a natural repugnance to intemperance."
{509} Board of Trade Journal, August 1896.
