CHAPTER V 



MARITIME FORMATION OF THE DISTRICT 

 OF INIIAMBANE 



I PASS over Tete because I cannot speak of it 

 from personal experience. It has a reputation 

 for being a dry, rocky country. Probably good 

 land is to be found in the Angoni country, but 

 Tete is remote from the coast and the planter 

 is not likely to trouble it till he is crowded out 

 of the fertile regions nearer the sea and 

 civilization — an eventuality not yet within sight. 

 The district of luhambane, like that of 

 Mozambique, is capable of division into two 

 well-defined areas, the positions in this case, 

 however, being reversed as the fertile strip 

 borders the coast. Roughly we may draw an 

 imaginary line from just below Cape Burra 

 Falsa inland for 50 miles and then south-west 

 parallel to the coast. This encloses the south- 

 east corner of the district, and within this en- 

 closure, which is fairly well watered by small 



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