or MONBAZA, a town of Africa, in an island of the same name, with a castle and a fort, seated on the eastern coast, opposite to the country of Mombasa in Zanguebar, 70 miles south of Melinda, and subject to Portugal. E. Long. 48. o. N. Lat. 44. o.

a country of Africa, in Zanguebar, subject to the Portuguese, from whence they export slaves, gold, ivory, rice, flesh, and other provisions, with which they supply the settlements in Brazil. The king of this country being a Christian, had a quarrel with the Portuguese governor, took the castle by assault, turned Mahometan, and murdered all the Christians in 1631; but in 1729 they became masters of the territory again.