2-981-885 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lieutenant Cameron and some of his African followers, 1876. Portrait of Verney Lovett Cameron, a '...brave and clever young naval officer, who has explored so much of the interior of Africa within the last two years...in his travelling attire, with some of his native African attendants...On Monday evening last, at the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Henry Rawlinson, the President, spoke of the probability of Lieutenant Cameron's speedy arrival in England. He was at Loanda when last heard of, and intended leaving that place about the end of January for Madeira, but the latest telegraphic news from Madeira had not yet reported him to have got there'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.