of 11/4 cwt.

EXPORTS FROM SINGAPORE.
Piculs
1840-41 Pearl sago 41,146
" Sago flour 33,552
1841-42 Pearl sago 46,225
" Sago flour 7,447
1842-43 Pearl sago 25,306
" Sago flour 4,838
1843-44 Pearl sago 14,266
" Sago flour 14,067
1844-45 Pearl sago 18,472
" Sago flour 36,141
1845-46 Pearl sago 19,333
" Sago flour 26,925
1846-47 Pearl sago 40,765
" Sago flour 9,025

Imports of sago into the United Kingdom, and quantity retained for
home consumption:--

Imports. Home consumption.
Cwts. Cwts.
1826 9,644 2,565
1830 2,677 3,385
1834 25,763 13,827
1838 18,627 28,396
1842 45,646 50,994
1846 38,595 45,671
1848 65,000
1849 83,711 72,741
1850 89,884 83,954

THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE.

_Artocarpus incisa_.--This tree is less cultivated than would be
supposed from its useful properties. In the West Indies and the Indian
Islands, where it has been introduced from its native place, the South
Sea Islands, it is held in very little consideration, the graminea,
tuberous roots, and farinaceous plants being more easily and readily
cultivated. There are two or three varieties known in the Asiatic
regions. The properties of this tree are thus enumerated by
Hooker:--The fruit serves for food; clothes are made from the fibres
of the inner bark; the wood is used for building houses and making
boats; the male catkins are employed as tinder; the leaves for table
cloths and for wrapping provisions in; and the viscid milky juice
affords birdlime.

_A. integrifolia_is the Jack or Jacca, the fruit of which attains a
large size, sometimes weighing 30 lbs., but is inferior in quality to
the bread-fruit.

The nuts or fruit of _Brosimum Alicastrum_, an evergreen shrub, native
of Jamaica, are nutritious and agreeable articles of food. When boiled
with salt fish, pork or beef, they have frequently been the support of
the negroes and poorer sorts of white people in times of scarcity, and
proved a wholesome and not unpleasant food; when roasted it eats
something like our common chesnut, and is called bread-nut.

_Kafir Bread_.--According to Thunberg, the Hotten