Malabati (Marivate)
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Ibn Majid (1470) is the only author to mention this place. No archaeological research has been done in this place. In the southern part of the bay is another place mentioned: Manarah or Qanbara, which is treated separately.
Taken from: Studia; Revista Semestral, Issue 32 1971 Centro de Estudos Históricos Ultramarinos (Portugal) Barradas, Lereno 1971 Roteiro de Sofala.
Malabati must correspond to Inhambane, but its coordinates, for this purpose, are so inaccurate that we have to admit a large deviation. (R. 93 v, 32).
Malabati, which, taking its description strictly speaking, would fall between the beaches of Morrumbene and Massinga (40km north of Morrumbene), which is unacceptable, as it is a coastline without shelter ports or islands. (Inhambane De Outrora by Lereno Barradas 1972).
In Ponta da Linga-Linga there is a native village named Marivate, as it appears on the official maps, which shows to be a slight corruption of Malabati, since, as is known, the palatal consonants l and r are confused in several languages. This place is very close to the Morrumbene proposed by JOUANNES Claude.
The Swahili maritime world of the late 1400s extended up to Inhambane south of Sofala in modern Mozambique.