514 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS 



The Customs value of all rubber exported from the 

 Territories in the years 1907-1912 is as follows :- 



Reis 

 1907 



1908 ... ... 67',032;275 



1 909 ... 130,239,555 



152,081,011 

 176,243,238 

 160,986,100 



1911 

 1912 



The statistics given above relating to rubber, as well 

 as those for the other products referred to in this paper, 

 only represent that which passes through the Customs 

 House or the Posts; the amount of contraband cannot 

 be estimated. 



Cotton. 



Cotton is indigenous to most districts of the Terri- 

 tories and is cultivated in many of them by the natives, 

 who know how to spin it, although clumsily. "An 

 author has said of Nyasa cotton that it is the best in the 

 world, its growth taking place during a much longer 

 period than in the United States, and the natives only 

 having to renew the plant every three years." (Governor 

 Vilhena: Reports and Memoirs, page 395.) More 

 recently Mr. Stocks writes : In view of the favourable 

 conditions existing in the country climatic and other- 

 wise cotton may well occupy a place second only to 

 rubber. Having seen it grown so uniformly well in 

 widely separated districts and conditions, both in a wild 

 and cultivated state, I can only recommend that its 

 culture be undertaken on a large scale near the coast. 

 Egyptian cotton is the most suitable, and several 

 standard varieties such as ' Abassi ' and ' Jannovitch ' 

 should be procured in quantity direct from Egypt. 



" A small quantity of ' Sea Island ' cotton should also 

 be tried, in good positions only." (Mr. Stocks: Report 

 to Search Syndicate, 1907). 



The first attempt at the cultivation of cotton by 

 approved methods was made by the Agricultural Company 

 of Ouissanga, near the headquarters of the Concelho of 

 that name on the sea coast. 



To the Exhibition of the Geographical Society, held 



