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. to the point of the bay of _St Laurence_, in lat. 25 deg. 45' S. opposite to which are two islands, named _Choambone_ and _Setimuro_, the latter of which is uninhabited, and is the station of the Portuguese who resort to this bay to purchase ivory. About this bay many great rivers fall into the sea, as those named _Beligane_, _Mannica_, _Spiritu Santo_, _Vumo_, _Anzate_, and _Angomane_[412]. _Anzate_ runs long the edge of vast inaccessible mountains, covered with herds of elephants, and inhabited by a gigantic race of people[413]. In the latitude of 25 deg. S. the river _De los Reyes_, or _Del Ouro_, likewise named the river _Inhampura_ falls into the sea, to the west of which in the interior are the kingdoms of _Innapola_ and _Mannuco_. From this place to Cape Corientes, the sea makes a great bay, along which inhabit the _Mocaranges_, a nation much addicted to thieving[414]. Opposite to Cape St Sebastian are the islands of _Bazaruto_ or _Bocica_, and not far from it the kingdom of _Innabuze_ which reaches to the river _Innarigue_[415]. After which is the country of _Pande_, bordering on _Monnibe_, which last extends to _Zavara_ in the interior. Near these are the kingdoms of _Gamba_ and _Mocuraba_, which last is near Cape Corientes[416]. [Footnote 409: If the latitude in the text could be depended on, this shipwreck seems to have taken place on the coast now occupied by the _Hambonaas_, near the small river _Bagasie_, 85 miles south from the entrance into _Delagoa_ bay. The river of Semin Dote is probably that now called _Mafumo_, which agrees with the country of _Fumos_ in the text; and the bay of Lorenzo Marquez may possibly be _Delagoa_, though only 28 leagues north from the latitude of the text, but there is no other bay of any importance for 400 miles farther along this coast.--E.] [Footnote 410: In modern maps, the country along the south side of the river _Mafumo_, is said to be the dominions of _Capellah_.--E.] [Footnote 411: To the south of the _Hambonaas_ at Delagoa bay, the coast of Natal is inhabited by the _Tambookies_ and _Koussis_. The river St Lucia still remains in our maps in the latitude indicated, but the other names in the text are unknown in modern geography.--E.] [Footnote 412: Of these rivers only that of _Manica_, called likewise _Spiritu Santo_, retains the name in the text. That circumstance and the latitude indicated, point out Delagoa bay as that called St Lawrence by De Faria; unl
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