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"Mozambique channel" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the markets of Italy. At the present day, almost the whole of the south coast of Arabia fronting the Indian Ocean, nearly from the head of the Persian Gulf to the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, as well as the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape Guardafui to the entrance of the Mozambique Channel a seaboard approaching 4000 miles in length—is more or less subject to the Sultan of Muscat, [33] a prince whose power is almost wholly maritime, and whose dominions nowhere extend more than thirty or forty miles inland: while our ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various

... Africa, group of islands in the Mozambique Channel, about two-thirds of the way between northern ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... hold our position, m'lord. But these Mozambique Channel currents are so strong, and shift so with the tides, we may have been ...

— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet

... resources: none Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other (rock) 100% Environment: surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones Note: navigational hazard since it is usually under water during high tide; located in southern Mozambique Channel about halfway ...

— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas. Elcano's crew consisted of fifty-three Europeans and a dozen natives of Tidor. The Victoria started for Spain at the beginning of the year 1522; passed through the Sunda Straits at great risk of being seized by the Portuguese; experienced violent storms in the Mozambique Channel, and was almost wrecked rounding the Cape of Good Hope. A few of the crew died—their only food was a scanty ration of rice—and in their extreme distress they put in at Santiago Island, 350 miles W. ...

— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman