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RECOLLECTIONS OF
or Indian Trinity in the centre, massive gold ornaments,
divers musical instruments, and some curious statuettes
serving to burn incense in the temples,
Cochinchina, although the youngest of French Colonies is
one of the most promising. Excellent ports, large navigable
rivers, an extremely fertile soil, and a quiet and laborious
population, are more than necessary elements to render this
new establishment a very prosperous one.
Rice is the staple production of Cochinchina ; sugar-cane,
cotton, tobacco, ground-nuts, betel, areca-nuts, and cocoa-
nuts are also cultivated to some extent.
No less than twenty different sorts of rice are grown
there 5 some are used to make wine, brandy, and sugar.
The natives of the country
seem to have taken great in-
terest in the Exhibition, and
send besides raw produce a
variety of manufactured artic-
les, such as baskets, fishing-
tackle, betel and tobacco
boxes, perfume burners, &c.'
New Caledonia, which may
be called French Australia,
unites the advantages of tro-
l pical and temperate climates.
There, sugar-cane, coffee, and
Cochinchinese Perfume-burner. cotton, are found by the side
of the cereals, and vegetables of Europe ; unfortunately the
savage nature of the indigenous population renders colo-
nization extremely difficult. Sandal-wood ranked once among
or Indian Trinity in the centre, massive gold ornaments,
divers musical instruments, and some curious statuettes
serving to burn incense in the temples,
Cochinchina, although the youngest of French Colonies is
one of the most promising. Excellent ports, large navigable
rivers, an extremely fertile soil, and a quiet and laborious
population, are more than necessary elements to render this
new establishment a very prosperous one.
Rice is the staple production of Cochinchina ; sugar-cane,
cotton, tobacco, ground-nuts, betel, areca-nuts, and cocoa-
nuts are also cultivated to some extent.
No less than twenty different sorts of rice are grown
there 5 some are used to make wine, brandy, and sugar.
The natives of the country
seem to have taken great in-
terest in the Exhibition, and
send besides raw produce a
variety of manufactured artic-
les, such as baskets, fishing-
tackle, betel and tobacco
boxes, perfume burners, &c.'
New Caledonia, which may
be called French Australia,
unites the advantages of tro-
l pical and temperate climates.
There, sugar-cane, coffee, and
Cochinchinese Perfume-burner. cotton, are found by the side
of the cereals, and vegetables of Europe ; unfortunately the
savage nature of the indigenous population renders colo-
nization extremely difficult. Sandal-wood ranked once among