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Tortoise Sheu.-At San Bias, on the coast of Da- ren' small settlement of Indians is established, for the sole purpose of taking turtle. It is under the management of three English, two American. and three Colombian traders, who make vast profit from the she'll The quantity of tortois shell taken by them amounts on an average, to 15,000 lbs per year, the value of which Is about G28,OOO. The produce of them varies very much, according to the nature of he season, in some years they take as much as t32'ooo worth Of shell, an enormous pro- duce of one out of the many like establishments on this coast It is curious fact that the handsomest she'll and consequently the most valuable is stripped from the animal while living lhe beauty of the shell always becoming less as the animal dies The dread ful torture which the creature endures by the opera tion finds no consideration in the minds of the ra ders