sentences:  Geographically Mpondoland was a remote area, not strongly affected by the events in the rest of South Africa.During the centuries of European navigation towards the Indian Ocean, Portuguese ships, as well as ships from other colonial empires(such as the Grosvenor) ran aground at different spots of the coast of Mpondoland.Some of the castaways stayed in Mpondoland and were later absorbed into Mpondo communities.