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wax, sugar for rum distilleries, vegetable oils, cocoa-nuts, ivory, 

 oxen and fish. Cotton growing has become unremunerative, and 

 is now neglected ; and rubber supplies are becoming exhausted. 

 The imports into Angola consist chiefly of textiles from Germany 

 and Great Britain. Portugal secures the larger part of the export 

 trade which consists chiefly of coffee and rubber. 



The Portuguese colonies as a whole carry on a considerable 

 trade 107 but not a large proportion goes to Portugal, yet the colon- 

 ial trade forms a mentionable part of the total Portuguese trade : 

 in 1908, 2.9 per cent of the imports came from the colonies and 

 15.8 per cent of the exports went thereto. The proportion of 

 exports sent to the colonies shows an increase over earlier periods 

 but both the relative and the absolute amount of imports of 

 colonial origin is less than formerly. 108 The total trade with the 

 colonies decreased from 7.9 per cent in 1888 to 6.8 per cent in 

 1908. 



The Spanish colony Rio Muni on the Gulf of Guinea has a low 

 and marshy coast region and contains vast forests. There are 

 Spanish, French and English factories along the coast but trade 

 is hampered because there are no harbors and the rivers are not 



107 Trade of the Portuguese Colonies in i 



Imports. 



Portuguese India 5,919,000 rupees. 



Macao 18,697,000 Mexican 



dollars. 



Timor 311,000 milreis. 



Cape Verde Islands 2,096,000 



Portuguese Guinea 857,000 



S. Thome and Principe 3,185,000 



Angola 5,137,000 " 



Portuguese East Africa 7,577,000 



Statesman's Ycar-Book, 1910, pp. 1114-1121. 



108 Trade of Portugal with the Colonies 



Exports. 



2,069,000 rupees. 

 17,755,000 Mexican 

 dollars. 

 358,000 milreis. 

 355>ooo 

 492,000 " 

 7,921,000 " 

 3,730,000 

 5,616,000 " 



Compiled from Statesman's Ycar-Book. 



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