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Mozambique
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1992
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James L. Stanfield
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"Under a blistering sun, a woman in the southeast African port of Mozambique keeps her face moist with a cream made from ground bark. Smitten by the women of this island, many 16th-century Portuguese mariners took lovers—as they did in all corners of their empire, where Portuguese names still abound. Way station en route to India, Mozambique was also a graveyard for hundreds of Portuguese victims of malaria and scurvy."
—From "Portugal's Sea Road to the East," National Geographic magazine, November 1992
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