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Atualizado: 15 de julho de 2025

To speak of Portuguese colonies in East Africa is to speak of a mere fiction a fiction colourably sustained by a few scattered seaboard settlements, beyond whose narrow littoral and local limits colonisation and government have no existence.

Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada - Relatorio de uma viagem ás terras dos Landins

It is simply absurd to suppose that Germany has not cherished designs more or less ambitious, based upon the apparent desire of England to get rid of its responsibilities in South Africa. To deny, or even to doubt the existence of these designs contingent always upon a policy of abdication and retirement on England's part is simply to ignore the abounding evidence of experience and of fact.

Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada - Relatorio de uma viagem ás terras dos Landins