A port for all the winds,
at 51/2 (fingers) a bit less (Mambone).
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Ibn Majid (1470) is the only author to mention the place. See also my entry on Satawah (Island of Macau in front of Sabi river)(?) another place on the Sabi river.
Al Idrisi (1150) mentions a place Bukta which might also be or be close to old Mambone.
Taken from: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOFALA COAST by R. W. DICKINSON.
Lereno Barradas's (1967: 26-27) investigations pointed to three possible sites for old Mambone. At only one of them; at the head of the deserted Bay of Muringare abundant evidence of an old settlement site was found.
Pottery close to the surface included the ceramics common on the oldest known sites at Sofala, andspindle whorls. Metal beads and a bangle fragment, and reheated snapped glass-cane trade beads also occurred. The site was of the late fifteenth century. The upper horizon could be early sixteenth.
Broadly, the pottery represents the African folk who were at the Sabi mouth and Sofala when the Portuguese arrived in the Indian Ocean.
