MOZAMBIQUE [Sao Sebastiao de Mocambique]

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MOZAMBIQUE [Sao Sebastiao de Mocambique] , a town of Portuguese

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Africa, seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric in the province of Goa, in 15 4' S., 400 44' E. The town occupies the whole of a small coral

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

at the mouth of Mossoril Bay. The name

Mozambique

MOZAMBIQUE [Sao Sebastiao de Mocambique]

, used first to designate the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

, was also given to the town and extended to the whole of the Portuguese possessions on the

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

of Africa. There are three forts, of which the principal, St Sebastian, at the northern extremity of the island was built in 1510 entirely of stone brought from Portugal. It is quadrangular, and has bastioned walls nearly 70 ft. high. In it are mounted some modern guns. The harbour is small, but deep enough to admit vessels drawing 25 feet.
The inhabitants, who number about 7000, consist chiefly of Mahommedan negroes of mixed descent speaking a dialect of the Makwa language. There are Parsee,

Banyan

BANYAN, or BANIAN (an Arab corruption, borrowed by the Portuguese from the Sanskrit vanij, " merchant ")

, Goanese and Arab traders, and about 300 Europeans, besides half-caste Portuguese. The annual average value of the imports for the three years 19o41906 was 97,035, of the exports 71,636. The import trade is chiefly with

Great

GREAT

Britain and India, the articles in

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

demand being

cotton

COTTON
COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
EDWARD
- EDWARD
_LYNCH_181.html">COTTON, GEORGE
EDWARD
- EDWARD
LYNCH
- LYNCH, PATRICIO (1825–1886)
(1813–1866)
COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

, coloured shawls and hardware. The exports are chiefly groundnuts, rubber of inferior quality, sesamum and other oil seeds, tortoise-shell and ebony. Germany has a large share of the exports.

Mozambique

MOZAMBIQUE [Sao Sebastiao de Mocambique]

was discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1498. There was then a flourishing Arab town on the island, of which no trace exists. The history of the Portuguese town is closely identified with that of the province, for which see PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA. The commercial and political importance of Mozambique has been eclipsed by Lourenco Marques.

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