Five maps of boundaries in East Africa affected by Article II of the Convention of...

Five maps of boundaries in East Africa affected by Article II of the Convention of 11 June 1891, in area now in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Angola, Zambia. Scales: (1) 1: 292,176; (2) 1: 3,801,600; (3) and (5) no scale shown; (4) 1:146,088. Dimensions: (2) 61 cm x 88 cm; (3) 35 cm x 45 cm; (4) 46 cm x 35 cm; (5) 49 cm x 62 cm.

(1) IDWO 953 (a-f). 'Map of the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary in East Africa, From the North Eastern corner of the South African Republic, to Latitude 18° S [South]'. Title in margin of each sheet: 'Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation 1892'. Key to arrangement of sheets. Six sheets joined. Size irregular: the map is an L reversed; most of it is about 37 cm in width. Made by the British Section of the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission, 1892: Major J J Leverson, Captain S C M Grant, Lieutenant C S Wilson, Sergeant D Clarke, and 2nd Corporal T Johnson, all Royal Engineers. Photozincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1893. Manuscript additions show Major Leverson's boundary; boundary claimed by Great Britain; points along the Leverson-d'Andrade line; east and west extremities of area within which the boundary was to run. Reference table in French.

(2) IDWO 795. 'General map of part of South East Africa; compiled in the Intelligence Division, War Office, 1892'. Printed 1892. Manuscript additions show what is now the Mozambique frontier north of the Zambezi River: according to unratified Convention of 20 August 1890; as proposed by Lord Salisbury on 3 April 1891; according to Convention of 1 June 1891; according to draft Convention of M du Bocage, 19 April 1891. Manuscript reference table in French.

(3) 'A map of Matabililand and Mashonaland, Manica and Gazaland; by E.A. Maund'. Scale: 1 inch to about 41 miles. Published for the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1891. Manuscript additions show what is now the Mozambique boundary south of the Zambezi River: according to unratified Convention of 20 August 1890; as proposed by Lord Salisbury on 4 February 1891; according to Convention of 11 June 1891; according to draft Convention of M du Bocage, 19 April 1891. Manuscript reference table in French.

(4) IDWO 954. 'Massi Kessi and Surrounding Country. Surveyed by the British Section of Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission, 1892'. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1893. Manuscript additions show British claim. Manuscript reference table in French.

(5) 'Africa Meridional. Mappa dos limites Portuguezes conforme aos ultimos Tratados (Portugal-Inglaterra e Portugal-Estado Livre do Congo)'. Map shows Portuguese territories according to the latest treaties between England and Portugal and between the Congo Free State and Portugal. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to about 94 miles. Based on a map published by the Commissae de Cartographia in 1886. Published by M Gomes, Lisbon, 1891.

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