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2 items extracted from FO 84/2269. South-east Africa. 2 maps, showing Portuguese...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/409
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This record is about the 2 items extracted from FO 84/2269. South-east Africa. 2 maps, showing Portuguese... dating from 1892 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1892
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2 items extracted from FO 84/2269. South-east Africa. 2 maps, showing Portuguese territory (now Mozambique) and British territory (now Zimbabwe): (1) on tracing cloth; (2) on tracing paper. Item 2 entitled: 'Sketch shewing portion of the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Agreed upon at conference on August 17th 1892'. Scale (both items): 1 inch to 4 miles. Item 2 signed: Julian J Leverson and A F d'Andrade. Endorsed: (1) 'Map to accompany Protocol of a meeting held at Beira, 26 Nov. '92 (Copy)'; (2) 'Sketch to accompany minutes of a meeting held at [?]Mapunganis, 17 Aug. '92 (Copy)'. Dimensions: (1) 24 cm x 15 cm, on sheet 31 cm x 34 cm; (2) 31 cm x 20.5 cm. Originally enclosures number 8 and number 5 in Major Leverson's despatch number 29, 14 December 1892.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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