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district of Eneoji; but that for the present is left unnoticed, as not being 
included in the strip of Angola, bounded by the Quanza and the Bengo, 
which is under survey. 
Coffee Estates. 
Altogether the estates of Cazengo and Golungo Alto number some- 
where between 15 and 20. "The largest of them—one of eight, which 
are in the hands of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino of Po rtugal—was 
described to the writer by the courteous and hospitable manager-in-chief 
of the mortgaged group as “six miles long and of breadth unknow” 
the map of it which he was engaged upon “being then incomplete. Its 
crop for 1893 was estimated at 214 t tons, and for the first time in the 
history of the property systematic planting had been undertaken, which 
was expected to result in the addition of 118,000 trees. 
Origin. 
Such information must needs provoke inquiry, and it becomes 
necessary to explain that all these estates have been created either by 
appropriation of forest in which coffee was growing wild, or b 
— oan already cleared by natives, and old records exist which 
irthright was bartered for something much less 
which has been mentioned as managed by Englishmen, and which 
belongs to a British firm, is registered as covering 1,424 acres, but only 
464 contain coffee. Ofthe remaining area 54 acres are given to cane, is 
the manufacture of rum, 64 to manioc, as food for the hands, and 1 t 
drying grounds, thus leaving 811 acres n except in so far 
as it yields fuel for the steam-power and distillery 
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poma cultivated, is cons el in other parts of the world good 
for a crop of halfa ton. Under such conditions the 464 acres above 
referred to might ba expected to joes 00 tons, whereas at 
present they only yield 35. There is no digging or manuring done on 
any of the properties. The trees are simply cleared of under-growth 
and pruned a little, in the roughest and readiest manner, and then left 
to do the best they can with such nutriment as rots on the surface 
around. But it is easier to indicate possibilities than to attain them, 
the problem exists in the usual terms of labour and management, and 
for those who can solve it the reward is fortune. 
Coffee Prices. 
Notwithstanding its inferiority, the coffee of Cazengo and Golungo 
Alto readily finds a market. In 1892 the total shipment from Loanda, 
consisting mainly of the crops of the two districts named, amounted to 
4,805 tons, valued by the Customs at 209,609/., and yielding to the 
Government a little over 6,0007. in duty. All of it went to the Tagus, 
and all in Viandes vessels. The returns for 1893 are not — 
obtainable; but everybody is of opinion that they will record a con- 
siderable increase; and it is a matter of orinni f that the profits k the 
