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Encyclopedia Britannica



MOZAMBIQUE [Sao Sebastiao de Mocambique]

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 949 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MOZAMBIQUE [Sao Sebastiao de Mocambique] , a town of Portuguese
East
  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
  at the mouth of Mossoril Bay. The name
Mozambique
 , used first to designate the
island
 , was also given to the town and extended to the whole of the Portuguese possessions on the
east
 
coast
  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
 , 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
  Britain and India, the articles in
chief
  demand being
cotton
 , 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
  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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