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1. Infants to 7 years old, (male) - - - 39 



2. Boys from 7 to 15 years old, - - - 42 



3. Adult men from 15 to 60, - - - 194 



4. Old men from GO to 90, - - - 4 



5. Female infants to 7 years - - - 35 



6. Girls from 7 to 12, 44 



7. Women from 40 years old and upwards, 43 



8. Women from 12 to 40, 101 



Total 502 



9. Number of births, 36 



10. Deaths, -32 



11. Marriages, -------- 6 



This was the population of the capitated inhabitants of 

 both sexes in the three towns of Quillemane, Senna, and 

 Tette, as well as in the ports of Zumbo and Manna; that is 

 scarcely 502 inhabitants in a territory containing 3600 square 

 leagues, or one person for 7 square leagues, which, in the 

 above ratio of excess of births to deaths, cannot be materially 

 increased for ages to come. 



The limits of this memoir forbid me to enter into minute 

 details respecting the causes of the great want of population 

 in a country so vast and fertile, and consequently well calcu- 

 lated for the increase of families. I have merely undertaken 

 the task of suggesting cursorily remedies for such an evil. 



When in a country naturally fertile and abundant, we be- 

 hold agriculture in its infancy or decay, when lands which 

 might subsist innumerable families, scarcely afford the means 

 of a wretched existence to a scanty population; the cause of 

 sucli a phenomenon can only be ascribed to a faulty legisla- 

 tion, — this alone can account for the deficiency of the neces- 

 saries of life, and the consequent want of inhabitants. The 

 constitution of the crown lands in the Captaincy of the Rios 

 de Senna, is adverse to the prosperity of the country; and 

 whilst the causes remain, the results must be as deplorable. 

 The uninhabited and waste condition of this territory arises — 

 1. From the want of security in the rights of proprietorship, 

 because the tenants hold their lands for their lives, and con- 

 sequently are liable to incur forfeiture, and thus lose their 

 estates : — 2. From the enormous quantity of land contained in 

 each estate, rendering it impossible that one individual can 

 properly attend to its cultivation and management, from 

 which cause also it arises, that some families live in abun- 

 dance, whilst others have scarcely the means of subsistence ; 

 — 3. The great abuses of permitting Goa and Mozambique 

 families to hold estates in the Captaincy of the b!ios de Senna, 

 drawing from thence their rents, but making no return what- 

 ever; whilst the under renters, unable to hold them in their 

 own right, are contented to find subsistence for themselves, 



