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Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters - The Search For Mecca

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220 DHOW-CHASING.<br />

at the present clay may f<strong>in</strong>d, that from Inhambane<br />

to Cape Guardafui the country is <strong>in</strong> the<br />

possession of Indian Banyans and Arabs, and is<br />

populated <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>terior by both half-caste<br />

Arabs and negroes, with the exception of one<br />

or two solitary spots which the Portuguese have<br />

been enabled to hold, either because they were<br />

more or less separated from the ma<strong>in</strong>land, or<br />

because the Arabs have not wanted them.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Portuguese profess to be <strong>in</strong> possession<br />

of the whole of the coast, from Inhambane to<br />

Cape Delgado, but by what right or authority<br />

we cannot say, certa<strong>in</strong>ly it is not by right of<br />

conquest, see<strong>in</strong>g that they have not yet conquered<br />

it.<br />

Mozambique is an island of one mile and<br />

a half <strong>in</strong> length, situated <strong>in</strong> a deep <strong>in</strong>let of the<br />

sea, measur<strong>in</strong>g six miles by five and a half:<br />

this<br />

<strong>in</strong>let receives the waters of three small rivers<br />

with<strong>in</strong> the island, and outside lie two small<br />

islets, on one of which, St. George's, stands a<br />

lighthouse with two men only upon it as<br />

lightkeepers.<br />

<strong>The</strong> population of Mozambique was estimated

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