the smoke, although it does not appear that any particular kind of wood is used for fuel. When dried in the sun, the bean becomes of a pale bleached colour, is larger, specifically lighter, and more insipid to the taste than the former. The most common mode of freeing the bean from the husk is, to pound the berries when dry in a bag of buffalo's hide, great care being taken not to bruise the bean. A mill of simple construction is sometimes used, but is not found to answer so well. The coffee being then separated from the husk, is put into bags or baskets, and kept on raised platforms till the season of delivery, when it is carried down to the storehouse, sometimes by men, but generally on the backs of buffaloes and mares, in strings of fifteen hundred or two thousand at a time. In the _Súnda_ districts there have been, for many years past, three principal depôts for receiving the coffee from the cultivators; viz. at _Buitenzorg_, _Chikàn_, and _Karang-sámbang_. From _Buitenzorg_ it is either sent direct to Batavia by land in carts, or by the way of _Linkong_, whence it is forwarded in boats by the river _Chi-dáni_. From _Chikàn_ the coffee is sent in boats down the river _Chi-táram_, and thence along the sea-coast to Batavia. From _Karang-sámbang_ it is sent down the river _Chi-mánok_ to _Indra-máyu_, where it is received into extensive warehouses, and whence it is now generally exported for the European market. Under this system, the _Súnda_ districts were estimated to afford an annual produce of one hundred thousand _píkuls_ of one hundred and thirty-three pounds and a quarter each, and it was calculated that the young plantations in the eastern districts, when they should come into bearing, would produce an equal quantity; but in this latter quarter, many of the gardens had been fixed on ill-judged spots, and the inhabitants were averse to the new and additional burden which this cultivation imposed upon their labour. Had the system, therefore, even been persevered in, and enforced by a despotic authority, it is questionable, whether the quantity anticipated in the above estimate, or even one half of it, would have been obtained from the eastern districts. The _Súndas_ living in an inland and mountainous country, and having been long accustomed to the hardship of the coffee culture, are less sensible of its pressure than the rest of their countrymen: time and habit have reconciled them to what was at first revolting, and what must always be considered as unjust; their modes of life, their arts, their domestic economy, and other social habits, have all adapted themselves to a species of labour, which was at first forced upon them; and a state of servitude, which the philosopher would lament as a degradation, is scarcely felt to be a grievance by them. Instances, however, are not wanting, in which the usual measure of exaction having been surpassed, they have been awakened to a sense of their wretchedness.