mozambique

I remember spending part of my Mozambique holiday here in 1960 and GRAND it was with the finest of architecture, sweeping staircases, fine carpets and antiques. It also had very fine dining. It had an Olympic size swimming pool and was situated close to the beach. I believe that after independence from Portugal it was converted into army barracks. I could look up my mother's diary if you would like more information

Suspect this may be Delagoa Bay, Mozambique.

The paddle steamer looks like one of our family photo's of the ALC fleet that plied from Chinde on the India Ocean coast, a British Enclave just over the sand bar on the only navigable tributary of the Zambezi River, to the Shire River - later to Chindio they went up to Chindio Delagoa Bay is down by Muputu so why did they put that place on a card with Zambezi River photo's? Oh what a puzzle.

Erica, if that was the route taken into Nyasaland (Malawi) by early settlers, missionaries and administrators (although I know some had to walk from the coast, perhaps when the Shire was in flood). Maybe the ship from Europe only disembarked passengers at Maputo on this occasion. It's a pity there isn't a journal.

I have never heard the word 'Slamer' so wonder if that is correct? I have also never heard of early travellers having to walk due to flooding. The main problem was low river levels which meant the deeper hulled boats were no good and they had to use primitive punt like boats of very low draught to get up the river in the dry season. The Society of Malawi has been producing a journal twice a year since 1948 covering such matters. It also has a very fine photographic archive including many photos on this Flickr site.

It looks more like Sh..... to me - Sharmer, perhaps, Mike. Will look at the SM site - thanks.

Nice

Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada (1846-1928), Portuguese military man, administrator and explorer in Mozambique: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim_Carlos_Paiva_de_Andrada

No clues yet as to what brought him to the United States. books.google.com/books?id=_G1-nXEv7REC&pg=PA102&l... Lonely Planet's guide to Mozambique (by Mary Fitzpatrick) has a paragraph about him as explorer and entrepreneur. Two of his descriptions of his explorations have been transcribed by Project Gutenberg (in Portuguese, of course) onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=...

He is listed as having sailed from New York on Feb. 27, 1915 on the Lusitania to Liverpool, which matches with the Lusitania shots just prior to this in the Bain news flow. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06EFDC1238E633A...