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568:: Couceiro and his troops should leave Bié by the morning of the following day. Indignant about the chief's demands, he sent Silva Porto to the village to negotiate an understanding. Believing he had some influence with the chief, he attempted to resolve the tensions, but was disappointed to realize he had little power: he returned despondent, likely learning that the British Ultimatum had reduced Portuguese influence. During Silva Porto's confrontation with Dunduna, the chief even tugged on his white beard; Dunduna was indignant over not being advised of the Paiva Couceiro's intentions and affirmed that Silva Porto was without character and insulted that he should wear beard, a symbol to him of respect. 330:", an autonomist uprising in the State of Bahia that occurred between 6 November 1837 and 16 March 1838, Silva Porto understood that this political instability would hamper business prospects, and decided to return to Angola, where he was employed in a local tavern. Slowly, he became captivated with the interior of the African continent, and with his first salaries, he bought handicrafts and linens. Once he was confident of the quantity of mercantile goods in his possession, he quit his job and began his 50-year career as a merchant in the interior. He was only 22 years old. This was a difficult adventure: many of the caravans that left the 452: 592: 43: 170: 611:"The city of Silva Porto has a graceful aspect and the roads well marked and for the most part recently asphalted, it is electrified and watered, with a radio station and swimming pools for water sports. In the city there was recently erected a bronze statue , with 3.6 meter height, in honor if this great Portuguese...there are 2300 Europeans, 1900 mestiços and less than 400,000 natives". 427:: he traveled to Moio (Kuba) in 1880 and 1882, to Lui (Barotseland) in 1883, and then to Benguela in 1882 and 1884. His activities were interrupted by a return trip to Lisbon for eye surgery during the winter and spring of 1885. When he returned he continued to trek his products across the interior, this time to Calunda and Benguela (by the end of 1887). When in 504:. At one point, Silva Porto housed the explorer, David Livingstone, and he helped Livingstone find an overland route between Luanda and certain places in the Angolan interior. Neither one of them seemed to like the other. Further, in his journals, he referred to the two Portuguese that he encountered (Silva Porto and Caetano Ferreira) as 442:
per month and the associated honors. The value of the 100$ 000 he earned was 20 gold 5$ 000 coins. These Portuguese gold coins had the same purity of 91.7% of the English Sovereign gold coins, but were 10.8% heavier. They were therefore worth 1 Pound, 2 Shillings and 2 pence each. In pure gold, he
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of Bié. He set out to quiet relations between the indigenous and Europeans; he met with the colonial Europeans to unite them and to persuade the local chief, Lhiumbulla, to stop detaining colonists (a fact that merchant Europeans continued to do for petty reasons). However, his attempts were an
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risked robbery, pillaging and negotiating styles of the local chiefs. There was always risk of wandering into tribal conflicts. Silva Porto developed many friendships in the interior with tribesmen and quickly adapted to the conditions in Africa, adapting indigenous agricultural techniques and
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impossibility when the chief died, forcing Silva Porto to ask the colonial administration for a military force to protect Portuguese interests. After 1854 his activity was incessant, and by 1869 he had made six voyages to Lui and three to Benguela, where he would purchase the local shop
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had made an appeal to an entitlement for the merchant/explorer (specifically a pension), in order to support his desire to return to Portugal, where he could "die in the Fatherland which he had honorably and dedicatedly served".
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rifles, which worried the chief of Bié. Fearing that the Portuguese were there to construct a fort and occupy his lands, the chief was convinced by Silva Porto that the troops were only passing through the area on the way to
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from the interior, which he meticulously recorded in his journals. These tomes (14 volumes in all) contained varied descriptions of geography, ethnography and anthropology of his region of Africa, which his old friend
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Around 1850, Portuguese exploration of Africa expanded, but Silva Porto's request for a military occupation force was never heard: at that time, Portugal was only interested in developing and colonizing the coast. In
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by relating his knowledge of native customs and identifying local indigenous which he had established good relations. Supposedly, Livingstone was unimpressed with the Portuguese settler, referring to him as a
468:, as well as a merchant and explorer. He frequently crossed the interior in caravans selling goods, as well as participating in field projects to document the ethnography and geography of the interior of the 464:, the most eastern Portuguese vanguard, Silva Porto experimented with exploring areas of the interior. He was a self-styled diplomat between the Portuguese colonists and the native tribes of the 326:
was" as he would state later in life. However, initially, Luanda did not fascinate him much, and after a short time, he returned to Bahia where the political climate was heating up. During the "
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his new name, in order to remove any confusion with another António Ferreira da Silva. He did this to pay homage to his hometown as well. In Bahia he continued to work as a sales clerk for a
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By 1838, he had opened a shop in the interior of Luanda. Then by 1845, he descended to Benguela, establishing a route for his business along the road to Lui, by way of Lutembo and the upper
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therefore earned 5.22 troy ounces of gold per month. At the recent gold price of $ 1500 per ounce, that would be roughly equivalent to US$ 7,828 per month in today's money.
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Silva Porto would once affirm, "If my work was what it was, there would be much published, and probably in many languages". In 1848, he was appointed interim
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he helped the local mission, providing from his own money for school supplies, food and clothing for their children and remuneration for the teacher.
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Brazil was an obvious possibility, owing to the success of many emigrants; at the age of twelve, with his father's blessing, he emigrated to the
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The name remained until Angola's independence in 1975. Today its importance has been bypassed, and the population was diminished substantially.
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In 1889, after a visit to another village, Silva Porto returned to Belmonte to find his home burned-down. He wrote his friend
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and remained sedentary, until 1879 when he returned to Belmonte. By 62 years of age, he was once again crossing
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Viagens e Apontamentos de um Portuense em África: Diario de António Francisco Ferreira da Silva Porto
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language owing to his isolation in the wilderness, in which he passed many hours writing silently"
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and the loss of the confidence brought on by chief Dunduna would drive him into despair.
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This article is about the trader and explorer in Angola. For the naturalist painter, see
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merchant but continued to be exploited by his boss and frustrated by the
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Returning to Teixeira da Silva, he asked about the certainty of the
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On 5 March 1889, he was substituted by Justino Teixeira da Silva as
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Map showing the route of Silva Porto from Benguela to Cape Delgado.
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people, fathering several mixed-race children with her.
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and explorer in Angola, in the Portuguese West Africa.
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One day, at the Port of Bahia, he boarded a ship to
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