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LEFT MOXOM 340 MOZABT in the Channel, under the command of Count zu Dohna-Schlobitten, Captain in the Imperial German Navy, with a crew of about 300 men. Within a period of less than three months he sank 15 mer- chant ships, captured the "Appam," sent her in to Norfolk, Va., then returned home with 200 prisoners and $250,000 in treasure. Her safe arrival caused great enthusiasm throughout Germany. MOXOM, PHILIP STAFFORD, clergy- man. Born in Markham, Conn., in 1848, he served with the Army of the Cumber- land in 1862, and enlisted in the 17th Illinois Cavalry, serving in 1863-1865. He studied at Rochester Theological Seminary and Rochester University, graduating from the latter in 1879. Was then Baptist pastor in Cleveland, 0., till 1885, and in Boston till 1894, when he took charge of the South Congregational Church, Springfield, Mass., becoming pastor emeritus in 1917. His works in- clude : "The Aim of Life" and "Two Mas- ters: Browning and Turgenief." MOZAMBIQUE, the principal province of Portuguese East Africa. It lies be- tween former German East Africa on the N. and British East Africa on the S. and extends from Cape Delgado to Kose Bay, a point just below Delagoa Bay, a distance of 1,300 miles. The N. boundary is formed principally by the Rovuma river; the S. in part by the Maputa; and the W. frontiers by Lake Nyasa, the British protectorate Nyasa- land, Rhodesia, and the provinces of the Transvaal and of Natal of the Union of South Africa, This demarcation includes the dependencies of Lourengo Marquez, Zambesia, Inhambane and Gaza, the whole being known as Portuguese East Africa. The limits of this territory were defined by an agreement made between Great Britain and Portugal, in 1891, and Germany and Portugal in 1886 and 1890 ; the included area is about 300,000 square miles. The forests yield valuable orna- mental woods. The soil is naturally fer- tile, producing maize, rice, manioc, cot- ton, sesame, cocoanut, india-rubber and medicinal plants. The country is rich in minerals, coal, iron, silver, gold and cop- per being found there; and mines of the two last named are worked to some ex- tent. The imports consist of cotton goods, hardware, arms and gunpowder, coal, beer, wine and provisions; the exports of ivory, ground nuts, oil seeds, honey, india-rubber, gums, ivory, tortoise-shell, amber and gold dust. The shipping is mostly in the hands of British firms. The chief towns are Mozambique, Chinde, Quilimane and Lourenco Marquez (pop. about 13,000). The population of the colony is about 3,120,000. The adminis- tration is in the hands of a Governor- General, who is located at Lourenco Mar- quez. The town of Mozambique, the capi- tal of the province, stands on a small coral island, separated from the main- land by the narrowest part of the Mo- zambique Channel. MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL, a water- way between Madagascar and the E. coast of Africa; about 1,000 miles long and 400 in average breadth. At its N. extremity are the Comoro Islands. MOZART, JOHANN CHBYSOSTOM WOLFGANG AMADEUS, a German composer; born in Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27, 1756. His father was sub-direc- WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART tor of the archiepiscopal chapel at Salz- burg. At the age of four he played the clavichord, and composed a number of minuets and other pieces still extant. When only six years of age his perform- ances were so remarkable that his father took him and his sister, who possessed similar gifts, to Munich and Vienna, where they obtained every kind of en- couragement from the Elector of Bavaria and the Emperor Francis I. In 1763 and 1764 the Mozart family visited Paris and London. Sjmiphonies of his own compo- sition were produced in a public concert in London; and while there he composed and published six sonatas. Two years later, when but 12 years of age, he com- posed the music for the religious service