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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D3287/89/6
Title	Photographs to illustrate H. de Laessoe's Journal of the first voyage from Walkers Drift to the mouth of the Zambesi [Zambezi], from August to September 1903, presented by him to Philip Lyttelton Gell (D3287/85/10)
Date	1902-1903
Description	Captioned photograph album, beginning with photographs of dead game animals (lioness, antelopes, rhinceros, hippopotamus, warthogs, etc.); the camp and huts at Tsheti [Sebungwe, Zimbabwe]; African people and village scenes; scenery on the Zambezi. Followed by a series of photographs of 'A voyage down the Zambesi August-September 1903' including the African crew of the boats, the start from Walkers drift, and then river scenes taken from the boat: Kariba Gorge [Zambia / Zimbabwe], Caxomba Portuguese settlement, Tschipendezia Gorge, Nyambari rapid at Tshikoa, Kebrabassa Gorge and Rapids [Cabora Bassa, Mozambique], Boroma Cathedral and Mission, and Tete [Mozambique].
Extent	1 volume
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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Format	Photographic
Related Material	See also D3287/85/10 for the accompanying account of this journey.
Term	British Empire
	Colonialism
	Geographical exploration
	Travel abroad
	Explorers
	Indigenous populations
	African peoples
	Travel