"Mauritius, by importing something like one hundred and seventy thousand laborers, has increased her exports of sugar from 70,000,000 lbs. in 1844, to 250,000,000 lbs. in 1858. Jamaica, by depending wholly on native labor, has fallen from an export of 69,000 hhds. in 1848, to one of 28,000 hhds. in 1859.
"It is believed that there are not at this moment above twenty thousand laborers who employ themselves in sugar cultivation for wages."
[104] Martin's British Colonies. See also Ethiopia, by the author, page 132, for full details on this question.
[105] The hhd. of sugar, as in Martin's tables, is here estimated at 1,600 lbs. See foot note on page 222.
[106] See American Archives, vol i. folio 1749.
[107] His estimates are in pounds sterling. It is here, for sake of uniformity, reduced to dollars, the pound being estimated at five dollars.
[108] Investigations before the Committee on the Petition of the West India Planters. See American Archives, vol i. folio 1736.
[109] American Archives, vol. i. folio 1519.
[110] American Archives, vol. i. folio 1531.
[111] Testimony of Geo. Walker, Esq, American Archives, vol. i. folios 1723-24.