QUILLIMANE. 263 



brief notes of a recent voyage from Lourenjo 

 Marques to Mozambique and back. 



"We left Delagoa Bay on the 26th of March 

 in the Union Company's SS. Natal, and with a 

 fair wind arrived next day off Inhambane, and 

 delivered mails and some cargo into the pilot's 

 boat, which was waiting outside for the steamer. 

 On the morning of the 2 9th we anchored off 

 Quillimane to await high water at 3 P.M., when 

 we crossed the bar and anchored off the town at 

 4.30 P.M. 



" To a landsman's eye there does not appear 

 to be much difficulty in crossing the bar and 

 entering the river, the greatest seeming to be to 

 find the buoys, which are not easily seen at any 

 little distance. The Zambesi here, from its 

 mouth to the town of Quillimane, some sixteen 

 or eighteen miles from the bar, is not broad, but 

 is very muddy, and runs with a strong current. 

 The banks are marshy, and mostly covered with 

 a small tree or shrub having the appearance of 

 mangrove. 

 " The town itself covers a large extent of level 



