72 MOZAMBIQUE 



the Zambezi, between the Chinde Eiver and the 

 main stream. 



At Inhambane cocoanut-planting has been 

 carried out on much more modest dimensions 

 than at Quehmane ; the whole industry, indeed, 

 is but small in comparison. Very little capital 

 has been expended by Europeans in planting 

 cocoanuts, nearly all the trees now bearing having 

 been planted by natives. Pursuing the same 

 system as when estimating the number of trees 

 in Quelimane, viz., calculating from the export 

 of copra, the number of cocoanut-trees that have 

 reached the bearing age in the Inhambane district 

 works out at 194,604. This is against 1,621,808 

 in Quelimane. There would, therefore, seem to 

 be nine times as many trees of bearing age in 

 Quelimane as in the Inhambane district. I have 

 allowed for an average yield of twenty nuts per 

 tree against fifteen in Quelimane because I think 

 there is a smaller proportion of unproductive trees. 

 No doubt Quelimane, where the soil is favourable, 

 is a better cocoanut country, the trees yielding 

 heavier crops than at Inhambane, but, as I have 

 pointed out, the land there is chess-boarded with 

 swamps, a fact which pulls the average down. 

 Again, at Quelimane there are a large number 

 of trees just come into bearing but which have 



