The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1936 - Great Britain |
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... Sofala , and , obtaining gold in that region , founded a community there . Subsequently a small settlement was made by the river Nyambana , or Inhambane , by Cape Correntes . When Al Masudi2 of Baghdad wrote his Meadows of Gold about ...
... Sofala , and , obtaining gold in that region , founded a community there . Subsequently a small settlement was made by the river Nyambana , or Inhambane , by Cape Correntes . When Al Masudi2 of Baghdad wrote his Meadows of Gold about ...
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... Sofala , just when the Portuguese aspired to displace the Moors as masters of the region . After its occupation the chief captaincy on the African coast was at first established at Sofala , but that port was found very unsuitable owing ...
... Sofala , just when the Portuguese aspired to displace the Moors as masters of the region . After its occupation the chief captaincy on the African coast was at first established at Sofala , but that port was found very unsuitable owing ...
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... Sofala , which in Arab days had been the port for the whole trade . Very little of the money , however , reached the Royal treasury ; indeed as early as 1552 Simon Botelho , overseer of the revenue , informed the King that even the ...
... Sofala , which in Arab days had been the port for the whole trade . Very little of the money , however , reached the Royal treasury ; indeed as early as 1552 Simon Botelho , overseer of the revenue , informed the King that even the ...
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CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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