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In "With Both Hands Waving", Justin Fox writes that in the 1500s "Baia da Lagoa was frequented by fishermen, farmers, ivory traders and whalers who targeted cows returning each year to calve in the shallows.


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For a vast hinterland encompassing Zululand, Swaziland and what was the Transvaal, Delagoa Bay became a focus for trade and provided a link with the trans-oceanic world of Asia and Europe.


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By the end of the 16th century, Portuguese ships were calling here every year, often setting up temporary camps on Inhaca or Xefina islands from where they'd send boats venturing upriver to barter their wares.


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The sailor-merchants were after ivory and offered in exchange beads and cloth, but ambergris, slaves, honey, rhino horns and the tusks and hoofs of hippos were also on the Portuguese shopping list".


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