It forms a large export from Ceylon:  the shipments from thence were, in 1842, 77,694 cwt.; in 1843, 1,692; in 1844, 2,592; in 1845, 2,854.  I have no detailed returns at hand, but in 1837, 23,695 piculs of sappan wood, and 2,266 piculs of roots of ditto were shipped, and in the first six months of 1843, 22,326 piculs were exported from Manila; a large portion of this comes to Europe, but some goes to China, the United States, Singapore, &c. 15,500 piculs were shipped from Manila in 1844, 5,250 ditto in 1845; and 1,210 tons in 1850.  About 3,000 piculs of sappan wood and the same quantity of other dye-stuffs are annually imported into Shanghae.  The price of straight sappan wood at Shanghae in July, last year, was thirty dollars per picul.

In Calcutta, in June last year, 4,000 piculs of the root of Manila sappan wood sold freely at about 7s. 6d. per factory maund, Siam ditto 6s.

75 tons were imported into Liverpool in 1849; and 120 tons in 1850, from Calcutta.  The imports of sappan wood into the United Kingdom, in 1850, amounted to 3,670 tons, worth L8 to L12 the ton, and this continued the price in January 1853.

Camwood, red sanders wood, barwood, and other dye woods, are found in great quantities in many parts of Africa.  The dyes of Africa are found to resist both acids and light, properties which no other dyes seem to possess in the same degree.  About thirty miles east of Bassia Cove, in the republic of Liberia, is the commencement of a region of unknown extent, where scarcely any tree is seen except the camwood.  This boundless forest of wealth, as yet untouched, is easily accessible from that settlement; roads can be opened to it with little expense, and the neighbouring kings would probably give their co-operation to a measure so vastly beneficial to themselves.  It is impossible to ascertain the exact amount of export of these commodities to Europe and the United States, but it is very great, and employs a large amount of vessels.  One Liverpool house imported 600 tons in a single year, worth L9,000.

In 1841 upwards of 3,000 tons of dye woods were imported into Liverpool from the western coast of Africa.

CAMWOOD (Baphia nitida) is used as a mordant and for producing the bright red color seen in English bandana handkerchiefs.  The imports from Sierra Leone to Liverpool in 1849 were 216 tons, worth L20 to L25 per ton.

Gaboon barwood is another variety of this dyewood which is imported from the west coast of Africa, in straight flat pieces, from three to, five feet in length; the average annual import being about 2,000 tons, of the value of L4 a ton.

The imports of barwood into Liverpool were in—­

Tons.
1835     2,000
1836     1,000
1837     1,150
1838       650
1839       350
1841     2,012
1850     1,710

                        Dyewoods imported in 1850.  Re-exported. 

Logwood 32,930