Recommendations Concerning Utilization. 
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n i j j °i ^ ant * Value ’ obtainable from the leaves of the Pine apple (Ananas). The Ananas is used as a hedge-plant along every 
RmZ^arh Zv f Tti M SHamba T? h °* thC Pr0vinCe * and there must be millions of plants available in scattered order, from which to collect leaves. 
i ■ j thp *1 °r I ■' b r ? ' S n0t yet perfect ’ and until a machine capable of producing as good fibre as that prepared by hand seen on the 
journey is in the market, it is doubtful if this can be utilized. It cannot profitably be prepared by hand. 
its market value ^sTi^ghe/' 6 '^ a ° 0 °^ CX ' StS wdd> ^ ut not ' n 9 uant ity at any one place, and its plantation is not recommended in preference to Furcraca though 
k i Man y indigenous plants yield fibre sufficiently good for native ropes but none of them are likely to meet market requirements. The native cloth prepared 
y ea in o e inner ar ° J iai 0 ( Plcus S P-) ' s a remarkable production which will take attention as a curiosity abroad, and may be found useful here for sugar 
bags, etc. Cotton culture also deserves attention. 
(j) Timber . The amount of timber through the Province is enormous, but its distribution is exceedingly scattered, and in no part which I have seen can it be said to be 
in forest condition. Everywhere it is or has been more or less mixed with the M’shamba cultivation, within which the natives with their own utilitarian ideas of 
value have reserved only such kinds as yield a liquor by fermentation or distillation. The timber is of no value to them; timber trees are consequently destroyed 
wit lout compunction unless they have the other use. But there are timber trees of very considerable value mixed among the others, which with better transport 
may come to be of value, and indeed may themselves form the sleepers for a tram-line to run upon, as well as the timber for stores, factories, etc., in outlying 
localities. 
Along the coast the Red Mangrove appears to have been mostly cut out for its bark, and I recommend that the cutting of this kind be prohibited for the 
present, and its propagation by the distribution of seed in tidal mud carried out by Government. I also recommend the protection of several other species fot 
various reasons, but leave these unnamed till I report further. 
The use of Mafurrera (Trichilia emetica) has been already mentioned. Of exotic trees there arc many quite suitable for local conditions and possessed of 
qualities which give them market value when conveniently placed; these will be discussed in a further report. 
(k). General. 1 he possible production of this portion of the Province is enormous, and exceedingly diversified, but the more important points, beyond stock-farming, may 
be summed up generally as follows:— 
From Lourenco Marques— Early and tropical fruits, Winter vegetables, etc. 
From Limpopo— Sugar, Lucern, Grain, etc. 
From Quisico and beyond— Oils, starch, flours, etc. 
From Inhambane — Cocoa-nut products. 
From all — Fibre, Rubber, Oils and Grain. 
“ Government proof at the Experiment farms in regard to new or improved kinds, better transport everywhere, attractive land tenure on a fixed, easily understood and 
reasonable basis, suitable alike to the settler and to the Concessionaire, encouragement of native industries, and the establishment or encouragement by Government of Central 
Grain-mills, sugar-mills, oil-presses, rubber stores, saw-mills, etc., are the present requirements of the Province.” 
Report on the General Economic Conditions of Magenja da Costa. 
Reprinted from “ 0 Fit l uro," 22nd and 24th September , iqo8. 
“ The industrial development of Magenja da Costa is a problem now ready for solution. Within the past few years this vast area of roughly 15,000 square miles has 
been peacefully occupied and roads made ; administration is now in full force, and it only remains to utilise the country. 
“ The material to be worked upon has been moulded by many past events ; history is written everywhere, alike in the forests and in the people. The people, especially 
the Loamas in the northwest are the lowest type I have ever seen, too low to know how to maintain themselves properly, consequently though they have rice, etc., they eat these 
raw rather than go to the trouble of cooking them, and in consequence are miserable fleshless beings, without any moral or physical stamina ; their further food is rats, mice, 
