THE Guano Trade,

The Salem Register publishes the following IN
teres,;no statistics in regard to this trade.
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The Salem Register publishes the following IN
teres,ing statistics in regard to this trade


The small island of Ichaboe, on the west Coast
of Africs. Lat. 267 Is 5, Lon. Ia Sc E. is sad
to De covered with this manure to the depth of
thirty feet. the Island IS small being not above
one mile in circumlrrencc. In the month Of De-
cember last there were twenty ships in the harbor
~ road formed between the island and the man
land, besides cozen more IN search OF the slanc'


rhe article itself costs nothing. and Il IS esilma-
ted in Eng!ant 20 he worih e per ton or about
$40 cents per b. Genuine guano tltls believ-
ed has never been found exc'pto OF places seem
ingly OF volcanic origin. and almost always IN -
uations where ganneis penguns, and seals are n
the habit OF resorting. The space on Inc We,
cnast of Africa from Orange river, IN Lat. -
25' 5. Len To- % E. to HaIlam's Bid Island
IN Lat. 24o 3s' S. Lon. lio D E. lies between
The British and Portuguese possessions IN South
ern Africa, and is CHARMED By no nation, and con
seouently any adventurer may have Gusno for lhe
taking. a writer in the last Nautical Magazine
very fscctously says " Some persons IN Liverpool.
it is said, allege that they have possessed the
sovereignty of the Guano Islands, but there are
no human inhabitants upon them, and the natives
Of the adjacent continent(who are described IS
civi! and harmless have neither boat nor Canoe.
the sol disant soyeregns must have conirtcted
with d King Penguin. had the contract stamped
bv A Fur.Sea and witnessed by the requisite
number oi G4nne's. p"