Manica, a gold-field long worked by the Portuguese, 130 miles NW. of the port of Sofala, and now mostly included in the British sphere of influence as an eastern section of Mashonaland (q.v.). It is intersected by the railway from the Pungwe River (near Beira) to Fort Salisbury.
Manica
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 20
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