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ports aiForded a ready sale for cargoes of this description ; besides 
a very considerable number of these unfortunate creatures was 
carried over by American, and sometimes, even latterly, by 
English ships under American colours, into our West India 
possessions. The whole of these sources are now cut off by the 
strict adherence of our cruisers in this quarter to the subsequent 
laws of the abolition. 
Nothing therefore remains to Mosambique except the limited 
trade with India and the Brazils; the former is still lucrative: 
ivory, gold, and slaves always find a ready market at Goa, Diu, 
and Demaun, and four or five vessels annually come from these 
places wdth cloths, cotton, teas, and other Eastern produce. The 
trade to the West is chiefly confined to slaves, which are carried 
as well to the Spanish as the Portuguese possessions in that 
quarter, and in return nothing but specie is received. 
The number of slaves annually exported from Mosambique is 
said to amount to more than 4000. The duty on each of these 
is sixteen and a half crusades ; tlfe Portuguese traders for a long 
time were charged only eight, but they are now obliged to pay 
at the same rate as the foreign trader. All other exports are 
exempt from duty. The duty on imports is charged in the fol- 
lowing proportions : 2~ per cent, is imposed on all the specie 
brought into the country, one per cent, of which goes to the general 
revenue, and the remainder to the Governor. Other imports 
pay twenty per cent, ad valorem, to which may be added one and 
a half per cent. custom4iouse charges, forty dollars for pilotage, 
and the maintenance of two custom-house officers on board each 
ship trading in the port, to whom it is usual to pay besides one and 
