Codice albumGBB-F-008529

Codice inventarioGBB-F-008529-0000

1890, ITALY: The italian Africa explorer Capitano GAETANO CASATI (1838-1902),portrait engraved by Mancastropa for the cover of illustrated italian magazine L'ILLUSTRAZIONE POPOLARE, 18 may 1890. On December 1879, he sailed for Africa under italian commission of the Società d'Esplorazione Commerciale d'Africa. He followed the course of the Welle river and explored the basin of the Bahr-el-Ghazal. In 1882 he was held prisoner for some time by native chiefs of Uganda. In 1883 he joined Emin Pasha and was shut in with him by the Mahdi insurrection, subsequently lived in the Kingdom of Kabba Rega, was condemned to death by the monarch, but escaped to Lake Albert, where Emin Pasha rescued him in 1888. In December. 1889, Casati reached the coast with Emin Pasha and celebrated british explorer Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904).

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