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SANTOS (Victor). O MISSIONÁRIO Quinhentista Fr. João dos Santos e o Seu Livro Etiópia Oriental. Lisboa. 1951. - SANTOS (Victor) O MISSIONÁRIO Quinhentista Fr. João dos Santos e o Seu Livro Etiópia Oriental . Lisboa: Agência Geral das Colónias, 1951. 62, [2] pp.; 205 mm. (Colecção Pelo Império, 123) A study to popularize the work of the 16th-century Dominican missionary Fr. João dos Santos (Évora, d. Goa, 1622) and his work *Etípio Oriental* (Évora, 1609), a fundamental primary source for understanding the territory, the Bantu peoples, and the kingdom of Monomotapa in Portuguese East Africa at the end of the 16th century. Friar João dos Santos served as a missionary in Mozambique between 1586 and 1597, passing through Sofala, Tete, and Querimba, before returning to Portugal via India, where, as prior of the Dominican convent in Évora, he wrote an account of his observations on the geography, ethnography, and natural history of the region, still considered today one of the best contemporary descriptions of the Portuguese presence in East Africa. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate