Catalogue description Southern Africa. 'Map of Barotse kingdom': showing the limits of the kingdom as claimed...

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Details of MFQ 1/838/1
Reference: MFQ 1/838/1
Description:

Southern Africa. 'Map of Barotse kingdom': showing the limits of the kingdom as claimed by [King] Lewanika, tribes within the kingdom, and the route followed by Major H Goold-Adams, 1896-1897; also showing rivers, towns and marshland; (the territory covered is now in Zambia and Angola). Reference table. Drawn by E A Reeves; lithographed and published by the Intelligence Division, War Office, October 1897. MS additions, coloured, showing the the boundary between Portuguese territory (now Angola) and German territory (now Namibia), Major Goold-Adams's 'irreducible minimum' line, and the area occupied by 'true Barotse tribes'. Originally accompanying Goold-Adams's report to the Foreign Office, which was enclosed in Colonial Office file number 22836, on the Barotse boundary question, received 14 October 1897.

Date: 1897
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Map designation: IDWO 1284
Dimensions: 46 cm x 63 cm
Map scale: 1:2000000
Physical condition: Lithographed, coloured
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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