1,800 1,900 1,600 2,200 1,700
Cuba 1,800 1,700 1,500 1,500 1,000
Java 1,600 1,500 1,500 1,600 800
Samoa 1,100 900 900 1,200 800
Togo 200 300 400 1,600 1,000
St. Lucia[1] 700 800 700 600 500
Belgian Congo 500 600 800 800 900
Dominica[1] 450 550 300 300 300
St. Vincent[1] 100 100 75 50 75
Other countries 3,200 3,000 3,500 3,500 3,500
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Total 275,900 296,100 295,400 344,000 275,600
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Total British
Empire 102,000 128,000 120,000 153,000 119,000

[1] British Possessions.

[Illustration: MAP OF THE WORLD, WITH ONLY CACAO-PRODUCING AREAS
MARKED.]

_SOUTH AMERICAN CACAO._

In the map of South America given on p. 89 the principal cacao producing
areas are marked. Their production in 1918 was as follows:

CACAO BEANS EXPORTED.

Percentage of
Country. Metric Tons.[2] World's production.

Brazil 41,865 15.4
Ecuador 38,000 14.0
(Guayaquil alone 34,973 tons)
Venezuela 13,000 5.0
Surinam 2,468 0.9
British Guiana 20 0.01
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South American Total 95,353 tons 35.31 per cent.
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[2] These figures, and others quoted later in this chapter,
are estimates given by Messrs. Theo. Vasmer & Co. in
their reports.

ECUADOR.

_Arriba and Machala Cacaos._--In Ecuador, for many years the chief
producing area of the world, dwell the cacao kings, men who possess very
large and wild cacao forests, each containing several million cacao
trees. The method of culture is primitive, and no artificial manures are
used, yet for several generations the trees have given good crops and
the soil remains as fertile as ever. The two principal cacaos are known
as _Arriba_ and _Machala_, or classed together as Guayaquil after the
city of that name. Guayaquil, the commercial metropolis of the Rep