Bwana meaning8/16/2023 ![]() Candido and he calls it Oleo of Frei Pedros.”įrom 1730 the main route for ivory trade, slaves, gold, copper and malachite from the north between the Kafue basin in Zambia and the Lunda and Biso country in Mozambique must have been down the Luangwa River to Zumbo and Feira. Received the recipe for curing wounds from Mr. Livingstone’s diary of 29 th March 1856 reads “Oil of Father Pedros. Sofala lies South of Beira but has a large sandbank in the entrance so that Beira was built to the north using much of the stone of the old Sofala buildings for its streets.įather Pedro became famous for his piety and his medicines were still remembered over a hundred years later when David Livingstone passed this way on his trans-Africa journey. According to legend he came from Sofala, itself the stuff of legends one being that it was called the city of gold and the Arabs used it as a port from which they travelled to the interior to buy gold, ivory and slaves. ![]() During the thirty years that he stayed there he acquired the status of a cultural hero among the local population. In 1726 Father Pedro do Santissima Tridade, a Dominican priest, was installed as the vicar of Zumbo. Two different settlements existed at Zumbo and Fiera. Eventually they outgrew the island and moved to Zumbo on the left bank of the Luangwa River. Francisco Pererir was the leader and earned his sobriquet of “The Terror” but kept the small community together. The Portuguese arrived here in 1546 and traded in gold ivory and copper as did a small party of Portuguese from Goa, India in 1720 that established a settlement on the small island of Chitakatira in the Zambezi. On modern maps Zumbo and Tete are about 220 miles apart. This was a Jesuit station about two and a half miles up the Zambezi from Fiera on the south bank. There is mention of a settlement called Zumbo in the Fiera district in 1546 that was abandoned in 1600. ![]() I had read a bit about this area so drove down to the town of Luangwa that in fact was originally called Fiera. This was a good few years ago so I don’t know if the camp is still there. I stayed at Bridge Camp situated just off the Great East Road in Zambia. This little corner of our continent has a fascinating history to. Here it is that Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique meet. So my thoughts have been in Mozambique which led to remembering a trip I had to the confluence of the Zambezi and the Luangwa rivers. Now our roof could be likened that of an early wooden cathedral, it is so high and to replace the thatch is no easy matter. My daughter and I own a place in Tofo, Mozambique and during the recent bad weather the thatch blew off the roof.
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