Portuguese East Africa

For nearly 400 years, Mozambique Island was the capital of Portuguese East Africa, when the region was under colonial rule.

For several days, Howard hid Churchill in his mine, then, with the help of several friends, smuggled him onto a freight train to Lourenço Marques, the capital of Portuguese East Africa.

For more than a day, he followed railroad tracks that he hoped would lead east — across 300 miles of Boer territory to Portuguese East Africa and freedom.

Even that could not stop Churchill, who soon escaped from the prisoner-of-war camp, travelling almost 300 miles to safety in Portuguese East Africa.

My motorbike’s chain was completely rusted up, so I was marooned in a little village called Tete in Portuguese East Africa for a month.