This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...especially in the districts of Flacq and Grand Port: in some other parts, such as Pamplemousses in the North and the rugged district of Black River in the West, the amount grown is comparatively small. The low prices prevailing everywhere have combined with special local circumstances, to which reference has already ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...especially in the districts of Flacq and Grand Port: in some other parts, such as Pamplemousses in the North and the rugged district of Black River in the West, the amount grown is comparatively small. The low prices prevailing everywhere have combined with special local circumstances, to which reference has already been made, to depress the industry, but prospects appear now to be improving. The value of sugar exported had fallen in 1901 to under Rs. 28,000,000, but it has steadily risen since that date, and the export for 1904 was valued at Rs. 40,512,462. At the present day, the only other products of Mauritius which deserve notice, besides sugar, rum, and molasses1, are aloe-fibre, and vanilla. The exports both of rum and of vanilla have greatly decreased in recent years. Manioc, which was introduced 1 In 1904 the products of the sugar-cane (sugar, rum, and molasses) accounted for almost 98 per cent, of the total value of exports. The West Indian Royal Commission of 1896 found that in the case of Barbados the percentage was 97, in that of St. Kitts-Nevis 96J, and in that of Antigua 943. Section by Labourdonnais, is still grown, but the cotton and indigo industries, which he also created, are now practically extinct. Tobacco planting finds a place in the records of the Dutch occupation, but the amount now grown is very small. Various kinds of fruits and vegetables, European1 and tropical alike, are raised in different parts of Mauritius. When Leguat visited the island at the end of the seventeenth century he found, according to his own statement, that potatoes were as much the staple food of the Dutch colonists of Mauritius as of the peasantry of Ireland. At the present day the Indians are the chief gardeners, and they grow their vegetable produce in the...
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