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were all motives which prompted the Maskat Arabs who had acquired 

 the sovereignty of the East African coast from Somaliland to INlocambique 



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to explore the unknown interior, especially in the direction of a land 

 known as Unyamwezi, or the Land of the Moon. During the first forty 



