The meal thus obtained is made into a porridge, which is generally eaten with fish. The fruit-trees are tamarinds, oranges, cocoa-nuts, palms, and mango-trees.Among the forest-trees is a species of cotton-tree of a gigantic size, frequently measuring 60 feet in circum ference. The wood is used for canoes in preference to any other, as not being subject to the attack of worms. Largo boats 50 feet long are made of a single tree hollowed out The wild animals are elephants, rhinoceroses, lions, hippopotami, alligators, monkeys, and deer; but there are probably many others, which have been overlooked by the few persons who have visited this country. There are the common domestic animals. Fish is very plentiful in the river, and constitutes one of the principal articles of food of the negro population. Bees are very common, and wax is an article of export.
Gold and iron are the only metals which are known to exist in abundance. Gold is chiefly found in the mountains of Sofala, and in those which surround the oolony on the west ; and it does not appear that this article is brought from the kingdom of Moravcs, but it is obtained in those of Quiteve and Barne. Iron is obtaiued iu
abundance from the eouthern districts of the colony, and also from the kingdom of Moraves; the hoes with which the slaves till the ground are made of it. Marble is got in the hills which run parallel to the coast. The population consists of a fow Portuguese and mulattoes, and a great number of blacks. According to the state ment of the governor of Rios de Senna, the number of the whites and mulattoes in 1810 did not exceed 500. The negroes are partly free and partly slaves of the whites and mulattoes. Tho colony is divided into several districts, each under a Portuguese governor, who collects from the free negroes the taxes in kind, consisting of bees wax, fowls, meat, vegetables, and rice.
The only harbour in the colony which is visited by vessels is that of Quilimane, about 8 miles from the sea, on the northern arm of the Zambesi. This town, with the other Portuguese settlements, Senna, and Tet6, are described in the article MozemaiquE Coast