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| Keywords: 1818 Pinkerton Map of Southern Africa ( Congo, Monomotapa, Cape Colony ) - Geographicus - SouthernAfrica-pinkerton-1818.jpg This fascinating hand colored 1818 map by Edinburgh cartographer John Pinkerton depicts Southern Africa Covers Africa from Angola south to the Cape Colony modern South Africa and east to the Kingdom of Mongall modern day Mozambique and the island of Madagascar Reflecting the somewhat limited knowledge of the African interior available to European cartographers of the period only three areas are illustrated with any detail - the Congo the Cape Colony South Africa and the former Kingdom of Monomotapa which roughly overlaps modern day Mozambique The Congo had been actively mapped and exploited by Portuguese merchants as early as the 14th century South Africa similarly had an active Dutch and English presence since the earliest days of African Colonization The ancient Kingdom of Monomotapa here part of the Empire of the Bororos and divided into Sabia Sofala Munhay and Manica appears on most early maps of Africa Already a great trading Empire when Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good hope in the 1490s Monomotapa or the regions between the Sabia Sofala and Zambezi River systems had long been associated with legends of King Solomon's Mines and the Biblical lands of Ophir In the 15th century the Zambezi hills were indeed rich in gold but these deposits had run out by the 1600s Still the European imagination inflamed by conquistador tales of golden empires in America made several attempts to conquer the region only to find that there was no more gold to be had In other areas of Africa's interior Pinkerton notes an embryonic Lake Malawi named Maravi and notes several important African tribal nations including the Massai the Hottentots the Bembe and the Luba Lubolo Drawn by L Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton This map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton ™s Modern Atlas published by Thomas Dobson Co of Philadelphia in 1818 1818 undated Size in 28 20 object history credit line accession number SouthernAfrica-pinkerton-1818 Pinkerton J <i>A Modern Atlas from the Lates and Best Authorities Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires Kingdoms and States; in Sixty Maps carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources </i> 1818 Philadelphia Thomas Dobson Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by John Pinkerton Old maps of Africa 1818 maps Old maps of Mozambique | ||||
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