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 | | After schooling at the Escola Superior Colonial, he undertook graduate studies in geography in Lisbon, at the Universities of London and Cambridge, and at the London School of Economics. |
 | | An interesting view of Portuguese trade in the mid-eighteenth century is given by this list of duties on commodities imported from Europe, Latin America, and the East, e.g., quinine, rosaries of Venetian glass, silk, taffeta, Indian velvets, rhubarb, soap, tobacco, sugar, conch shells from Mozambique and the Maldives, cardamom, cochineal, gold, paper, and leather. |
 | | Lists the cargo of the Bon Jesus, loaded at Portobello (on the Isthmus of Panama) with 4 million pieces of eight, twenty tons of silver pigs, 120,000 pounds sterling in bars, coined gold, and three hundred tuns of wood. |
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