EAST AFRICA, Portuguese, or MOZAM BIQUE. The possessions of Portugal, com prising three distinct entities: the province of Mozambique (293,580 square miles) the Com panh ia do Mocambique (59,840 square miles) ' • and the Companhia do Nyissa (73,292 square miles). The first-named is divided into five districts, with Lourenco Marques as the capital. Its coast line extends south from Cape Delgado, the southern extremity of the coast-line of Ger man East Africa to Kosi Bay, just below Dela goa Bay, at a point separating British from Portuguese territory, as fixed by the Anglo Portuguese agreement of 1891; the northern boundary is the river Rovuma, running west from Cape Delgado to Lake Nyassa. The frontier between German and Portuguese. East Africa runs along parallel lat. 10° 40' S. from the coast to its intersection with the river Rovuma, leaving the mouth of the Rovuma and Kionga to Germany and Cape Delgado to Portugal. The eastern boundary is the lake and British Central Africa, or the Nyassa Pro tectorate down to the junction of the Shire with the Zambesi; while from that point Rho desia, including Mashonaland and Matabeleland and the Transvaal form the boundary. Its
total area is 426,712 square miles, and the population is estimated to be between three and four millions. The principal exports are sugar, oilnuts and seeds, caoutchouc, ivory and min ing products. The Mozambique Company ad ministers Sofala and Manica, the Nyassa Com pany has jurisdiction in the •northern part be tween Lake Nyassa, the Rovuma and the Lurio, Bulawayo. The railway from Delagoa Bay. (57 miles in colony) connects with Pretoria; and that from Beira (204 miles in colony) with Bulawayo; and there are three smaller lines. ' There were in 1912 2,959 miles of telegraphs. The coast-lands are low-lying and not very healthy, but in the region of the Namuli Moun tains there is one of the finest and most beauti ful tracts of country in the whole continent. There are several important rivers, including the Zambesi, Limpopo, Rovuma,' Sabi, Pungwe, Lurio, Mtepwesi, Lukuga and many others. The most important towns are Lourenco Marques (pop. 9,849; 4,691 Europeans), Mozambique, Ibo, Zumbo, Tetet and Sena. Gold is found in the Manica region on the west and has been worked by British capitalists.