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De Benguella ás terras de Iácca; descripção de uma viagem na Africa central e occidental. Comprehendendo narrações, aventuras, e estudos importantes sobre as cabeceiras dos rios Cu-nene, Cu-bango, Lu-ando, Cu-anza e Cu-ango, e de grande parte do curso dos dois ultimos; alem da descoberta dos rios Hamba, Cauali, Sussa e Cu-gho, e larga noticia sobre as terras de Quiteca, N'bungo, Sosso, Futa, e Iácca

Capelo, H. (Hermenegildo), 1841-1917, Ivens, Roberto, 1850-1898 · 1881 · Lisboa, Imprensa nacional · 15 pictures

A Portuguese travel account of an expedition through central and western Africa by Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens, published in Lisbon in 1881 by the Imprensa Nacional for a general reading public interested in exploration. The pictures are dry black-and-white wood engravings of African people, dwellings and village life, showing a documentary style a designer could use for historical texture, with the first plate's full-length portraits of two figures carrying loads on their heads.

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