Manarah or Qanbara or Kandali (Bay of Inhambane)
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Ibn Majid is the only author to mention this place: Manarah or Qanbara in his Sufaliyya and Kandali in his Hawiya. He mentions at 4 fingers of Nach Bandar Kus at 26.6°S; Bandar Qasim at 23.5°S and Kandali at 23.9°S.
(But the Daghuta of so many authors beginning with Idrisi(1150) might be also it; Abulfeda 1331;)
Idrisi (1150) mentions: This land touches on that of the Quac-Quac, where there are two miserable, dirty towns. This is because of the scarceness of food and scarceness of all other things to. One is called Derou (or Zaoura, this last name comes close to the river Zavora, in that neighborhood) and the other Nebhena or Iana'ana (what comes close to modern Inhambane). (In one of the two manuscripts the translator used Nebhena was used in the other Iana’ana). And Zavora is about 80km down the coast from Cape Correntes.
Ibn Said (1250). He mentions the following: Seventh section; In this one ends the continent of the Soudan which stretches from the extreme west up to Djabal al Nadama, (Mountain of Repentance). ……… When a boat from the sea of Hind enters this channel the waters and wind pouch it till you see this mountain, one regrets not to have taken precautions and accepts the fatality, then one gets shipwrecked, or one gets behind the mountain after which there is no more news about the ship, and it is unknown what has happened, it is said that there waves that don’t stop turning the ship till it submerges.
…… Under this mountain, in the channel of al-Qoumr is the town of Daghouta last town of Soufala. In his book: Inhambane De Outrora, Lereno Barradas (1972) argues that this is Cape Correntes; the place where the ships indeed are taken south by the currents along the reefs; where you repent having gone there.
Lereno Barradas also argues that the name of the place must have been Daghuta, the last place of Sofala. He might be right as the placename is very old.
- Ibn Sida (d1066): Daghawa, A race of Sudan, behind the Zinj on an island in the sea.
Also, maybe the same place as Dgo or Dgaop;
-Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (d791); Dgo or Dgaop: race of Sudan behind Zinj on the island of the sea.
-Al-Sahib ibn Abbad (995): Dgaop, race of the Sudan behind Zinj.
There are also some authors who copied the Daghuta of Idrisi: Ibn Said (1250); Abulfida (1331); Al Himyari (1461).
Manarah; JOUANNES Claude translated it as Qambara and he identifies it as the bay of Inhambane. As proof he gives the description of Ibn Majid: ‘It does have here cliffs and islands in the reef here.’ And says that in the ‘Instructions Nautiques’ the bay of Inhambane is described as nearly complete obstructed by reefs and sandbanks. This is also very visible on Google Earth.
No archaeological research has been taken place in the bay. In the northern part of the bay is another place mentioned: Malabati (Marivate), which is treated separately.