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Palm Oil from other ports—

	1856.		1857.		Increase.
Benin River,	2,500	tons.	2,650	tons.	150	tons.
Palma,	2,250	tons.“	3,250	tons.“	1,000	tons.“
Badagry,	1,250	tons.“	1,250	tons.“
Porto Novo, &c.,	4,000	tons.“	4,500	tons.“	500	tons.“
Whydah,	2,500	tons.“	2,500	tons.“
Ahguay, &c.,	1,800	tons.“	2,500	tons.“	700	tons.“
	14,300	tons.	16,650	tons.	2,350	tons.
From Lagos,	3,884	tons.“	4,942	tons.“	1,058	tons.“
Total shipment in 1857,			21,592	tons.	3,408	tons.

The export of Oil and Nuts from Sierra Leone:

palm oil exported from sierra leone during the years

1850,	285,032	gallons,
1851,	212,577	gallons,“
1852,	307,988	gallons,“
1853,	181,438	gallons,“
1854,	304,406	gallons,“
1855,	364,414	gallons,“
1856,	463,140	gallons,“
Total,	2,118,985	gallons, equal to 6,835 tons.

Custom House, Sierra Leone, 18th February, 1857.

Port of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

quantity of palm-nut kernels exported from the colony:

1850,	4,096	bushels,
1851,	2,925	bushels,“
1852,	46,727	bushels,“
1853,	29,699	bushels,“
1854,	25,3991/2	bushels,“
1855,	65,388	bushels,“
1856,	90,282	bushels,“
Total,	264,5161/2	bushels, equal to 6,612 tons.

Customs, Sierra Leone, 30th January, 1857.