DELAGOA See also:

• BAY

BAY (See also:

• PORT

Port. for the bay " of the See also:

• LAGOON (Fr. lagune, Lat. lacuna, a pool)

lagoon ")  , an inlet of the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian Ocean on the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, between 25° 40' and 26° 2o' S., with a length from See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north to south of over 70 M. and a breadth of about 20 M . The See also:

• BAY

bay is the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern termination of the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of lagoons which See also:

• LINE

line the coast from See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

• LUCIA (or LucY), ST

Lucia Bay . The opening is toward the N.E . The See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• PART

part of the bay is formed by a See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula, called the Inyak peninsula, which on its inner or western See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side affords safe anchorage . At its N.W. point is See also:

• PORT

Port See also:

• MELVILLE, ANDREW (1545-1622)
• MELVILLE, ARTHUR (1858-1904)
• MELVILLE, JAMES (1556-1614)
• MELVILLE, SIR JAMES (1535-1617)

Melville . North of the peninsula is Inyak See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, and beyond it a smaller island known as See also:

• ELEPHANT

Elephant's Island . In spite of a See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar at the entrance and a number of shallows within, Delagoa Bay forms a valuable See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, accessible to large vessels at all seasons of the See also:

• YEAR

year . The surrounding See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low and very unhealthy, but the island of Inyak has a height of 240 ft., and is used as a See also:

• SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium . A See also:

• RIVER

river 12 to 18 ft. deep, known as the Manhissa or See also:

• KOMATI

Komati, enters the bay at its Northern end; several smaller streams, the Matolla, the Umbelozi, and the Tembi, from the Lebombo Mountains, meet towards the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the bay in the See also:

• ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary called by the Portuguese the Espirito Santo, but generally known as the See also:

• ENGLISH

English river; and the Maputa, which has its headwaters in the See also:

• DRAKENSBERG (Quathlamba or Kahlamba, i.e. " heaped up and jagged," of the natives)

Drakensberg, enters in the south, as also does the Umfusi river . These See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers are the haunts of the See also:

• HIPPOPOTAMUS (" river-horse," Gr. lames, horse and aoraµbs, river)

hippopotamus and the See also:

• CROCODILE

crocodile . The bay was discovered by the Portuguese navigator See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio de Campo, one of Vasco da Gama's companions, in 1502, and the Portuguese See also:

• POST

post of Lourenco Marques was established not See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long after on the north side of the English river . In 1720 the Dutch East See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India See also:

• COMPANY

Company built a fort and " factory " on the spot where Lourenco Marques now stands; but in 1730 the See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement was abandoned .

Thereafter the Portuguese hadintermittently—trading stations in the Espirito Santo . These stations were protected by small forts, usually incapable, however, of withstanding attacks by the natives . In 1823 See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain (after-wards See also:

• VICE

Vice-See also:

• ADMIRAL

Admiral) W . F . W . See also:

• OWEN, JOHN (1616-1683)
• OWEN, JOHN [OVENUS Or AUDOENUS] (c. 1560-1622)
• OWEN, ROBERT (1771-1858)
• OWEN, SIR HUGH (1804-1881)
• OWEN, SIR RICHARD (1804–1892)

Owen, of the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• NAVY

navy, finding that the Portuguese exercised no See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction south of the settlement of Lourenco Marques, concluded See also:

• TREATIES

treaties of cession with native chiefs, hoisted the British See also:

• FLAG (or " FLAGGE," a common Teutonic word in this sense, but apparently first recorded in English)

flag, and appropriated the country from the English river southwards; but when he visited the bay again in 1824 he found that the Portuguese, disregarding the British treaties, had concluded others with the natives, and had endeavoured (unsuccessfully) to take military See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the country . Captain Owen rehoisted the British flag, but the See also:

• SOVEREIGNTY

sovereignty of either See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power was See also:

• LEFT

left undecided till the claims of the See also:

• TRANSVAAL

Transvaal See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic rendered a See also:

• SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of the questionurgent . In the meantime See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain had taken no steps to exercise authority on the spot, while the ravages of Zulu hordes confined Portuguese authority to the limits of their fort . In 1835 Boers, under a See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader named Orich, had attempted to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a settlement on the bay, which is the natural outlet for the Transvaal; and in 1868 the Transvaal See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president, Marthinus See also:

• PRETORIUS

Pretorius, claimed the country on each side of the Maputa down to the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea . In the following year, however, the Transvaal acknowledged See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal's sovereignty over the bay . In 1861 Captain Bickford, R.N., had declared Inyak and Elephant islands British territory; an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act protested against by the See also:

• LISBON (Lisboa)

Lisbon authorities . In 1872 the dispute between Great Britain and Portugal was submitted to the See also:

• ARBITRATION (Lat. arbitrari, to examine or judge)
• ARBITRATION, INTERNATIONAL

arbitration of M .

See also:

• THIERS

Thiers, the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French president; and on the 19th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1875 his successor, See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

Marshal See also:

• MACMAHON, MARIE

MacMahon, declared in favour of the Portuguese . It had been previously agreed by Great Britain and Portugal that the right of pre-emption in See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale or cession should be given to the unsuccessful claimant to the, bay . Portuguese authority over the interior was not established until some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time after the MacMahon See also:

• AWARD (from O. Fr. ewart, or esguart, cf. " reward ")

award; nominally the country south of the Manhissa river was ceded to them by the Matshangana See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief Umzila in 1861 . In 1889 another dispute arose between Portugal and Great Britain in consequence of the seizure by the Portuguese of the railway See also:

• RUNNING

running from the bay to the Transvaal . This dispute was referred to arbitration, and in 1900 Portugal was condemned to pay nearly £r,000,000 in See also:

• COMPENSATION (from Lat. compensare, to weigh one thing against another)

compensation to the shareholders in the railway company . (See LouRENco MARQUES and See also:

• GAZALAND

GAZALANd.) For an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the Delagoa Bay arbitration proceedings see See also:

• SIR

Sir E . Hertslet, The See also:

• MAP
• MAP (or MAPES), WALTER (d. c. 1208/9)

Map of Africa by Treaty, iii . 991-998 (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1909) . Consult also the British See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue-See also:

• BOOK

book, Delagoa Bay, See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

Correspondence respecting the Claims of Her See also:

• MAJESTY (Fr. majeste; Lat. majestas, grandeur, greatness, from the base mag-, as in magnus, great, major, greater, &c.)

Majesty's See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

Government (London,1875) ; L. See also:

• VAN

van See also:

• DEVENTER

Deventer, La Hollande et la Baie Delagoa (The See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague, 1883) ; G . McC . Theal, The Portuguese in South Africa (London, 1896), and See also:

• HISTORY

History of South Africa since See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 279.5, vol. v . (London, 1908) .

The Narrative of Voyages to explore the shores of Africa . per-formed . . . under direction of Captain W . F . W . Owen, R.N . (London, 1833) contains much interesting See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information concerning the See also:

• DISTRICT

district in the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early part of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century .