BAGAMOYO  , a seaport of

German East Africa in 6° 22' S., 389 55' E . Pop. about 18,000, including a considerable number of British Indians . Being the port on the mainland nearest the town of Zanzibar, 26 m. distant, Bagamoyo became the starting-point for caravans to the great lakes, and an entrep8t of trade with the interior of the continent . It possesses no natural harbour . The beach slopes gently down and ships anchor about 2 M. off the coast . The town is oriental in character . The buildings include the residence of the administrator, barracks, a government school for natives, a mosque and Hindu temple, and the establishment of the Mission du Sacre Cceur; which possesses a large plantation of coco-nut palms . Bagamoyo is in telegraphic communication with Zanzibar and with the other coast towns of German East Africa, and has regular steamship communication with Zanzibar . Of the explorers who made Bagamoyo the starting-point for their journeys to the interior of Africa, the most illustrious were Sir Richard Burton, J . H . Speke, J . A .

Grant and Sir H . M . Stanley .