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THE Lisbon correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs that Ivens and Capello have arrived ill at Loanda, after two years' exploration. They are suffering from fever and other complaints induced by privation, and were almost without clothes. According to government instructions, they have completed a general map of Loanda. They explored the rivers Quango and Quanza, and the territories bordering on their basins. They could not descend the Quango to its confluence with the Zaire on account of the resistance of the hostile tribes. Capello appears quite old, and hardly recognisable. Ivens is better, though ill. Both are thorough scientific men. They bring important notes extending over 32 degrees, plans of the territories and the roads, and meteorological, magnetic, and geographical observations made with the excellent instruments they carried. They were well received by the chief of the Motiangp territory, from which the German explorer, Schultz, was excluded; but the chief would not allow any white man to pass east at the peril of his life. They visited the highlands of Bihé, and explored several rivers to their sources. Nearly all their followers deserted them. They were received with great enthusiasm on their arrival at Loanda, and will go to Mossamedes to recruit, prepare their plans, and write out their observations. The period of their return to Lisbon is uncertain.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 21, 118 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021118a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021118a0