... Sofala , near the mouth of the Buzi River in what is now central Mozambique . The presence of 9th - century Islamic ruins on Manda Island off the Kenyan coast indicates that Arabic traders started settling in east Africa at a very early ...
... Sofala On his first voyage Vasco da Gama had not stopped at either Sofala or Kilwa , but he must have heard news of both , for Cabral , making the second voyage to India in 1500 , called at Kilwa and on his return dispatched a ...
... Sofala in Mozambique . African traders , presumably from the goldfields , brought gold and other merchandise overland to Sofala ; African authorities discouraged the coastal Arabs from going inland on their own . " 4 At this stage ...
... Sofala . The trade there had been diminished by the Zambezi settlements , and , in fact , Sofala's insalubrity seemed to pre- clude its continued existence . In 1667 , a Jesuit padre observed that the church of Sofala lacked a priest ...
New South Wales. Miller Margaret Millett John G. M. Mills Isaac , Sofala Mills Mary Ann , Hinton Minshall James , Goulburn Mitchell David , Maitland Mitchell John , Bathurst Mobbs John , Albury Moffitt Mrs. E. , Sofala Malloy Thomas ...
... Sofala an Eldorado . The name Sofala , as applied to the ancient gold- fields , is met with many centuries back in Arabian literature . We come across it about 900 A.D. It can hardly be questioned that it was handed down to the Arabians ...
... Sofala and at Delagoa Bay . They settled finally at Sofala , hoping from there to be able to exploit the gold trade of . the Mwene Mutapa . In 1505 Francisco de Almeida was dispatched from Portugal to India with the mission of ...
... Sofala is romantically linked in legend with Ophir, the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. Poetry has been written about it. Yet it lies ruined and lost, ravaged by tropical weather systems, quiet under the sun. Old 16th century maps show ...
... Sofala, Mozambique. http://cotap.org/projects/ sofala/ Accessed 4 Nov 2013 Dougill AJ, Stringer LC, Leventon J, Riddell M, Rueff H, Spracklen DV, Butt E (2012) Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from ...