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The main exports consist of 50,000 tons of sugar, part of 

 which has to be forwarded to Portugal; of 500,000 bags of 

 maize; of coconuts, oilseeds, jute, and timber, but the commercial 

 intercourse between Portugal and Mozambique is smaller than 

 with West Africa. 



Very interesting problems of a political and economic nature 

 are being debated respecting the relations with the neighbouring 

 States, the better employment of native labour, the building of 

 railways and harbours, the exploitation of the agricultural and 

 mineral riches of this colony, the settlement of Portuguese 

 colonists, the most adequate customs tariffs, the opening of new 

 markets, the encouragement of foreign capital and industry. 



The possibilities of this country are numerous, the most 

 striking being the cultivation of cotton, jute, fibres, sugar, oil 

 seeds, the exploitation of fruit, vegetables, and other foodstuffs, 

 stock breeding, the exploitation of coal, copper, tin, gold and 

 other minerals, the exploitation of fisheries and salt, etc. 



Portuguese India 



is a relic of the big Empire of the 16th century. The land 13 

 undeveloped. The chief exports consist of coconuts. Rice, cotton, 

 rope-making, fisheries, salt, might be the object of commercial 

 undertakings. Mormugao is the best natural harbour of the 

 western coast of India and is being exploited by a British 

 company. 



Macao 



is the Portuguese entrepot of the East, established in the sixteenth 

 century. As a trade centre it might be most valuable. 



Timor 



is the Portuguese possession of the Pacific. Half of the island 

 belongs to Holland. The soil is fertile and it is reported that oil 

 wells exist there. Sandal wood and coffee are the most valuable 

 articles of export. 



British Capital Invested in the Colonies. 



The amount of British capital invested in the Portuguese 

 colonies is estimated at 20,000,000. The Lobito railway is the 

 most important British undertaking in Angola. At Mozambique 

 numerous companies were floated with the strong assistance of 

 British capital, such as the Mozambique Company, the Nyassa 



