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MOSSAMEDES

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 903 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOSSAMEDES  , a

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town of Portuguese West Africa, capital of the
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district of Mossamedes, on the south side of Little Fish
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Bay (Bay of Mossamedes or Angra do Negro) . Pop. about 5000 . The harbour affords excellent anchorage . A railway (over loo m. long) starts from the harbour and crosses the semi-
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desert coast region to the fertile Chella plateau . Mossamedes is the headquarters of an important fishing industry (see La Geographic, March 1908) .

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