... 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 " with India , and of " the abundance of gold in the mountains behind Sofala . " But before " Sofala , " Sofala was . History explicitly shows that the Magadoxo Arabs did not originate the gold export trade of Sofala , for , as ...
... Sofala , it is said , will have to quit that place from fear of the idolaters . At Quiloa all ships going to Sofala have to stop and pay tribute , before going to the mine of Sofala . When they get to So- fala , they have to remain ...
... Sofala , where a rurban settlement made up the umland : " It was typical of so many towns of eastern Africa where the urban life and culture shaded im- perceptibly into , and was intricately bound up with , the life of the rural agri ...
... Sofala was able to free itself from Kilwa's overlordship . Nevertheless , until the arrival of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean , Kilwa , despite its decline , continued to trade for the gold of Sofala by the familiar sea route ...
... Sofala through Quiteve , and extended their arms and conquests westward as far as the mountains of Abutua . This fact is important , because it shows that Abutua is not situated to the westward of the Zumbo , but at a considerable ...
... Sofala . Arabian records of a thousand years ago tell of the immense trade of Sofala in gold and ivory with India , Persia and China . When the Portu- guese sailed up the East African coast , after rounding the Cape of Good Hope , late ...