Quilimane

Quilimane, a seaport of East Africa, in the Portuguese territory of Mozambique, stands about 15 miles from the mouth of the river of the same name, the northern arm of the Zambezi delta. The town occupies an unhealthy site, but imports cottons, beads, hardware, arms, coal, spirits, and food-stuffs to the annual value of £80,000, and exports ivory, ground-nuts, india-rubber, wax, copal, and oil-seeds to a value that ranges between £90,000 and £160,000 a year. Fifteen per cent. of the total trade is for and from Nyassaland (q.v.). Pop. 6000, including 116 Europeans and 327 Asiatics.