Chap. XXII. 



EXPORTS FROM LOANDA. 



437 



Feb. 20th. — On the day of starting from Cassange, the westerly 

 wind blew strongly, and on the day following we were brought to 

 a stand, by several of our party being laid up with fever. This 

 complaint is the only serious drawback Angola possesses. It is in 

 every other respect an agreeable land, and admirably adapted for 

 yielding a rich abundance of tropical produce for the rest of the 

 world. Indeed I have no hesitation in asserting, that, had it been 

 in the possession of England, it would now have been yielding as 

 much or more of the raw material for her manufactures, as an 

 equal extent of territory in the cotton-growing States of America. 

 A railway from Loanda to tins valley, would secure the trade of 

 most of the interior of South Central Africa.* 



* The following statistics may be of interest to mercantile men. They show 

 that since the repression of the slave-trade in Angola the value of the exports 

 in lawful commerce has steadily augmented. We have no returns since 1850, 

 but the prosperity of legitimate trade has suffered no check. The duties are 

 noted in Portuguese money, " milreis," each of which is about three shillings 

 in value. 



Return of the Quantities and Value of the Staple Articles, the produce of the 

 Province of Angola, exported from St. Paul de Loanda between July 1, 

 1848, and June 30, 1849, specifying the quantities and value of those 

 exported in Portuguese ships and in ships of other nations. 







In Portuguese Ships 





In Ships of other Nations. 



ARTICLES. 





























Amount. 



Value. 





Amount. 



Value. 









£. s. 



d. 





£. S. d. 





Cwt. 



1454 



35,350 







515 



12,875 



Palm oil 





1440 



2,160 







6,671 lqr. 



10,036 17 6 



Coffee 





152 



304 







684 



1,368 



Hides 



No. 



1837 



633 17 



6 



849 



318 17 6 





Cwt. 



147 



205 16 







4,763 



6,668 4 



Beeswax 





1109 



6,654 







544 



3,264 



Orchella 



Tons 



630 



23,940 













69,247 13 



6 



34,530 19 



Cwt. 



Total Quantity and Value of Exports from Loanda. 



£. s. d, 



1,969 .. .. 48,225 



8,111 lqr 12,196 17 6 



836 .. •• 1,672 



2,686 .. •• 952 15 



4,910 .. •• 6,874 



1,653 .. .. 9,918 



630 .. •• 23,940 



Ivory 



Palm oil 



Coffee 



Hides 



Gum 



Beeswax , . . „ 



Orchella Tons. 



No. 

 Cwt. 



£103,778 12 6 



Abstract 



