CHAPTER V. 
Miscellaneous Economic Products. 
I.— RUBBER. 
R UBBER is procurable in every district of the Province, but its extraction has not received the same attention here that it has in some other parts of Africa. This is not 
due to small quantity or low grade ; rather is it due to the natives being so prosperous and having so little use for money that they do not require, in order to live, 
even to collect what surrounds them on every hand. In the districts south of the Tropic, the rubber, so far as known, is almost entirely the product of Landolphia Kirkii, a 
scandent shrub or a rampant climber in accordance with its surroundings, though as several other species of Landolphia occur, it is quite probable that some of them yield a 
quota. Many other trees, shrubs and creepers yield latex, but none of them are being collected on a commercial scale meantime. 
From 22" S. to the Zambesi the administration is in the hands of the Companhia de Mozambique, whose Director of Agriculture, Mr. W. H. Johnson, F.L.S., published 
last year a valuable treatise on the rubber industry there,' from which it appears that that same species is the one well-known source of rubber there ; while north of the Zambesi 
Landolphia Kirkii and Mascarenhasia clastica yield about an equal proportion each, and the rubber of each is collected in the same way and accepted at the same value by the 
traders. 
Mi. Johnson states that the quantity of rubber exported from his territory, since records are available, has been: — 
1894 
>805 
1896 
1897 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1901 
43.8587 lbs. 
27,812-4 „ 
6 °.577‘° .. 
21,676 6 „ 
48,661-8 „ 
148,570-4 „ 
82,141-4 „ 
182,5164 n 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1907 
1908 (January to June) 
134,813-8 lbs. 
133,988-8 
199,126-4 
214,500-0 
186,135-0 
95,020-0 
68,200-0 
Total 1,647,598-7 lbs. or say 735 tons. 
worth at 4s. per lb. (its average value in London) .£329,520, or nearly an average of ,£23,000 per annum. 
The exports declared from Government territory in the Province of Mozambique have been:— 
Year. 
Kilos ok Rubber. 
Value in Reis. 
1904 
298-008 
318292 
1905 
361803 
277-119 
1906 
438-371 
334-003 
1907 
308-205 
264-498 
. . ; b ‘ , uul raeanu ®e tnrougnout Uovernment territory there are practically no regulations enforced in reeard to rubber- 
z~ x: tb z i r,r tt 10 its co : lect;on anj ■* ^ « » JLiS ** " « z c ; 
Concerning this matter in the Companhia de Mozambique’s territory, Mr Tohnson statps* “TI-ip MmamK'n n . ,. 
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' “The Rubber Industry .n the Territories of Manica and Sofala,” Whitehead, Morris & Co., London, price I /- 
