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Cuanza (river)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

Dead hippopotamus and slayers, 1884-03-17 - 1884-03-20

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/43
Scope and Contents

205 x 138 mm. Showing two Europeans and a large band of Africans (holding paddles) grouped around the body of a hippopotamus on the muddy bank of a river (possibly the Cuanza).

Dates: 1884-03-17 - 1884-03-20
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Item

Luansa bon Jesus [? Bom Jesus, Cuanza River], 1884-03-17 - 1884-03-20

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/41
Scope and Contents

221 x 147 mm. A view looking over a settlement of thatched huts towards a group of European buildings (? the Portuguese trading post) standing on the bank of the river at the left. The photograph is most probably of the village of Bom Jesus on the lower Cuanza, ten miles west-south-west of Catete.

Dates: 1884-03-17 - 1884-03-20
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).