Delagoa Bay In A Sentence

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• Portuguese, whose nearest settlement was at Delagoa Bay.
• (7) A line from Belfast on the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railway to Lydenburg (65 m.).
• The country is well watered by numerous rivers, all of which discharge into Delagoa Bay.
• They also ascertained that a trade between the Kaffirs and the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay already existed.
• The only town of any size outside the British possession is Lourenco Marques (Pop. 1907, 9 8 49) in Delagoa Bay.
• He was followed by another tribe, which under Manikusa for many years ravaged the district around and north of Delagoa Bay (see Gazaland).
• On the east coast the Portuguese were masters of Sofala by 1506, and a trading-post was first established in Delagoa Bay in 1545.
• As a port outside British control Delagoa Bay was a source of strength to the Boers, especially as the railway 1 was under their control.
• The district long suffered from lack of railway communications, but in 1910 the completion of the Selati line giving it direct access to Delagoa Bay was begun.
• The Delagoa Bay railway being at length completed to Pretoria and Johannesburg, Kruger determined to take steps to bring the Rand traffic over The Netherlands railway Drifts began by putting a prohibi
• Neither the Portuguese nor the British claims seemed of much importance until the rise of the South African republic. Anxious for a seaport, the Transvaal Boers -in turn laid claim to Delagoa Bay.
• In 1890 the construction of the Transvaal section of the railway to connect Pretoria with Delagoa Bay was begun, the line from Lourenco Marques having been completed to Komati Poort in December 1887.