Then, Vasco da Gama landed there and eventually Mozambique Island became the capital of
Portuguese East Africa. The Portuguese architecture is still evident on the forts and the old houses which survive.
Thereafter, the fighting between the Allied and German sides continued until the German commander, General Lettow-Vorbeck surrendered in
Portuguese East Africa thirteen days after Armistice Day in 1918.
The 6,000 tonne vessel was on a voyage from
Portuguese East Africa to London when it ran aground on rocks 10 miles from Dakar in French Senegal.
In this case the true story is extremely fragmentary, and consequently is "therefore based on the little we know, and all that we don't know." It is the story of a poor young Swedish woman, Hanna Renstrom, who left her homeland in 1905 as a ship's cook and jumped ship on what was then
Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique).