60. 
The value of coral obtained in 1879 equalled 18,061,840 
reis, viz., £180,618. 
To the other Portuguese possessions on this coast, viz., 
at Senegambia and Bissao, with a population (1873) of 
9282, Princes and St. Thomas Islands with a population 
(1879) of 20,931, Ajuda (Whydah) with a population (1873) 
of 4500, and Angola, Ambriz, Benguela, and Mossamedes, 
with an estimated people of 2,000,000, the allusion 7 re 
the Cape Verdes to the non-existence of a developed fish 
industry beyond the primitive native calling will, I am led 
to believe, equally apply. 
St. Helena. 
The population of St. Helena has been returned for 
1881 as 5,059, of whom 4,511 are given as natives. There 
were I71 boatmen and fishermen. 
In Mellis’s “St. Helena” will be found the following 
description of the fishermen :— 
“Those men who prefer exclusively to follow the noble calling 
of fishermen number about 80 or 90, but they are a class who 
through years past have lived away from civilization: their wives 
and children occupying small miserable huts, or nearly inacces- 
sible caves along the rocky shores, where they are altogether far 
removed, partly through their occupation, and partly through 
their long-acquired habits of indolence and demoralisation, from 
any beneficial influences. The men themselves, although there 
are some few exceptions, are for the most part satisfied to bring 
in just sufficient fish as will afford food and obtain a supply of 
Cape wine for a few days, when, after indulging in the excess in 
the latter, and recovering from their half stupefied state, they 
proceed out again for the same purpose.” 
There are no fresh-water fishes indigenous to the 
island, due, no doubt, to its volcanic nature. Albecore, 
