But the port decayed and Mtwara and its cashew-growing hinterland were neglected by Tanzania's rulers after the country became independent, initially as Tanganyika, in 1961.
By August she had put into Port Mahon, suffering decay of her spar deck, and she remained there until temporary repairs were completed in March 1827.
The prospectus talks of redeveloping the decaying port area, and of at last cleansing Guanabara Bay of sewage and industrial pollution.
Karāchi was a small fishing village when a group of traders moved there in the early 18th century from the decaying port of Kharak Bandar nearby.
ADEN, Yemen — This decaying port city, near the heart of Yemen's deadly Qaeda insurgency, may seem an odd place to host an international soccer tournament.
Onomatopoeia is a decaying port where people sit around sadly, where the young are underemployed and where radical political movements breed among the monstrous fish- and duck-billed dogs.
The flag of the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, as the south was styled when it was independent, festoons the walls of the decaying port city, once its capital.
Sparrowhawk, from whom Arren rebels from time to time, becomes his mentor and guide on a perilous trek that takes them through Hort Town, a crowded, decaying port city.
How a provincial young English kid growing up in the immiserating gray of a decaying port city, in love with music from a country he had never seen, could summon such brio and inventiveness, such a bonanza of baroque melodies and instantly memorable phrases, is a forever mystery.
Although the island and its decaying port town, Onomatopoeia, is completely imaginary, it was inspired by Mull, the island where Avery was born.
