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European employees. This has also, I believe, been 

 done on the Mombasa Railway with very successful 

 results, and proves that in clerical as well as other 

 capacities the class of Indian selected for these 

 purposes makes a very efficient railway servant. 



A'\'^e now pass to another type of Oriental who 

 is found in all parts of Zambezia as well as 

 throughout the Mozambique Province, namely the 

 Portuguese native of Goa. The Goanese is a 

 native of Portuguese India, but instead of devoting 

 his energies to trade and commerce, he is usually 

 found discharging clerical duties in the offices of 

 the various European merchants and traders. In 

 some portions of the coast, notably at Zanzibar 

 and Mombasa, some members of the Goanese 

 community have established large commercial 

 houses, and doubtless do a considerable amount 

 of business ; but in Mozambique they have not 

 reached this height of importance. Dressed in 

 European clothes, speaking perfect Portuguese, 

 and often fluent English, the Goanese makes a 

 good if not strikingly active settler. Curiously 

 enough, however, the Goanese possesses a some- 

 what weedy constitution, is exceedingly susceptible 

 to malaria and other tropical diseases, and, once 

 attacked, is a shockingly bad patient, often dying, 

 I am convinced, from sheer inability to make up 

 his mind to recover. 



Another type of settler whose ministrations are 

 not of a character calculated to do very much for 

 the future of Zambezia is the native labour agent 

 and recruiter. The number of the natives who 

 leave the Zambezi Valley for work in other parts 



