C>(> Terao'.s Memoir relative to the 



duties on articles of colonial import are paid at Mozambique, 

 but the articles of export to that place are free of all impost, 

 unless they bs re-exported. I shall not, since there is no 

 custom-house in the Captaincy, attempt to give any account 

 of these duties, but shall merely state those which are col- 

 ted in the colony, viz.: the fines and tenths. All the 

 lauds of the Captaincy are either crown or exchequer estates, 

 except a very few small establishments which may at any 



time be alienated. 



Cruzadoes. 

 The crown estates in the district of Tette, 



are 48, which pay in fines and tenths, - 708,522| 

 Exchequer estates ditto, 6, - - - 5G,077| 



Crown estates in the district of Senna, 27, - 1,327,917^ 

 Fiscal Estates do. do. 4, - 97,375 



Crown Estates of Quillimane, 13, - - 421,441. J 

 Fiscal do. 2, 88,660 



Total fines and tenths in Cruzadoes, 2,900,000 



Besides the 48 crown, and 6 fiscal estates in the district of 

 Tette, 13 others have been annexed to the crown lands by con- 

 quest, part in 1804, and part in 1807. Seven of these estates 

 were let in the name of his royal highness (for his establish- 

 ment) to other families, the rest of them also paying fines and 

 tenths for the same purpose. The 15 estates conquered in 

 1804, were the territory of Queen Sazora, in the land of the 

 Caffres Maraves, which bolder on the ancient lands of the 

 colony to the northward of the Zambezi. This Queen had 

 usurped and invaded some of the territory of the Captaincy, and 

 had, moreover, given an asylum to run-away slaves, so that 

 it became expedient to expel her, and extend our conquests 

 by force of arms. The other estate it was found necessary t« > 

 conquer in the present year, 1807, for the greater security 

 and peace of the colony and its inhabitants ; it belonged to 

 King Bive, also a Maravee. These are the most fertile of 

 all the interior countries, and their productions are at once 

 most valuable and abundant. Gold is found in the mines, 

 and a great quantity of iron, which might be made a very 

 considerable export: all the iron instruments or tools for 

 domestic or agricultural uses, are fabricated in the Maravees 

 country. 



Such are the revenues derived from the Captaincy of the 

 Bios de Senna, which might be incomparably greater, were 

 the crown 1 id on a different tenure, if they were 



more o|>;ally divided, and if the legislative authorities turned 

 their attention to agricultural productions as the most proper 

 commercial articles. This, as 1 have so often insisted upon, 



