THE EASTERN COAST. 
387 
loured handkerchiefs, and coarse cloths. Mr Salt 
was even assured that, high in the interior, ar- 
ticles of the value of two dollars would purchase 
either a slave, or from sixty to eighty pounds of 
ivory. 
Mosambique is built upon a small island at the 
mouth of a deep bay. Immediately to the north 
is the peninsula of Caboceiro, nine miles long and 
four broad, and connected with the continent by a 
neck of land about a mile in breadth. In it are 
situated the country-houses of the governor and 
principal inhabitants ; and most of the provisions 
consumed at Mosambique are raised here. It 
forms, in fact, the limit of Portuguese dominion, 
and is frequently itself exposed to attack from the 
native tribes. 
The gold and ivory exported from Mosam- 
bique is chiefly brought from the mountainous 
tract near the head of the Zambese, and the pre- 
servation of the settlements on that river has al- 
ways been the main object of Portuguese policy. 
At its mouth, about three days' sail to the south 
of Mosambique, is the port of Quilimanci, where 
there is a depot for merchandize. About £47 
miles above Quilimanci lies Sena, the principal 
settlement on the river. Twenty days' journey in- 
land lies Manica, the great mart for gold, where 
an annual market is held, in which that commo- 
dity, with ivory and ghee, is bartered for Surat 
