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Title: Africa
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Johnston, Keith, 1844-1879 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e coast-land bears the name ofthe Mozambique coast, from its most important town,Mozambique, on 15° south latitude. Although the Portuguese have been in possession ofthis coast ever since 1506, the country lying at its backw^as quite unknown to us, except from native reports,until 1881, when the Eev. Chauncy Maples and ConsulH. E. ONeill, succeeded in penetrating for a considerabledistance into the interior. Leaving the level, well wooded,populous, and fairly cultivated coast country behind him,the explorer enters upon a hilly region, where great graniteslabs and boulders make their appearance, and bamboocane takes the place of the vegetation peculiar to thelowland. In the dry season the country looks parchedand tinted yellow by the burning sun, but even then thenumerous rivulets can be distinctly traced for miles owingto the vegetation of the freshest green which accompaniestheir banks. At Namviroli, 200 miles inland, Mr. ONeillwas shown the lofty Namuli Peak in the distance, which.
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THE NYASSA )l SHIRWA LAKE REGION.

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