AFRICAN EXPLORERS.
Brussels, August 25. — .The arrival at Cape Town is announced of the Portuguese explorers, Capella and.lvens, who started from Mossamedes in Maroh, 1884. The - explorers have traversed .Central Africa from west to east, while Stanley and Cameron crossed it ; from • east to weat. They reached Quillman in June, 1885, after , having marched B,ooo. kilometers,! s,oo0 pi , which have never been explored before. They discovered the sources of the Lpajaba;, a tributary of the Congo> in a country ; in' copper. Eighty of the 120 men employed :aa an escort to them died on the^ route. J ;,
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 122, 3 October 1885, Page 3
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97AFRICAN EXPLORERS. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 122, 3 October 1885, Page 3
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