Brito Capella, Ermenejild Carlos de

Ermenegildo Carlos de Brito Capello ( port of Hermenegildo Carlos de Brito Capello ; February 4, 1841 - May 4, 1917 , Lisbon ) - Portuguese sailor and explorer, explorer of Africa .

Ermenejildo Carlos de Brito Capella
port. Hermenegildo Carlos de Brito Capello
Date of Birth	February 4, 1841 ( 1841-02-04 )
Place of Birth	Palmela ( Portugal )
Date of death	May 4, 1917 ( 1917-05-04 ) (aged 76)
Place of death	Lisbon (Portugal)
Nationality	Portugal
Occupation	traveler
Awards and prizes

In 1860 he first went on an African expedition and spent the next 25 years in Africa, with interruptions. He participated in 1879 in a large Portuguese expedition to Africa, along with Serpa Pinto and Evens . From Durban, Capella (then captain of the corvette) and Lieutenant Evens traveled West and Central Africa to the lands of Yakka, studied the Kwango basin and discovered its tributaries: Gamba , Quillo and Kugo , after which they returned to Luanda.

In 1884, Capella and Evens traveled the entire African continent from Mossamedes (March 1884 ) to Kelimane (June 1885 ), having covered 8 thousand km, they explored the country between the river. Kunene and Upper Zambezi , the watershed between Zambezi and Congo and the source area of Lualaba and Luapula . Descriptions of these journeys are published under the headings: "De Benguela as terras de Jacca de 1877 à 1880" and "De Angola a contra costa" ( 1886 ). Capella was later the Portuguese commissar in Zanzibar and the governor in Luanda .

In the early 1900s, Capella returned to Portugal. In 1906 he was awarded the rank of vice admiral . He was a close adviser to the last Portuguese king, Manuel II, and retired after the overthrow of the monarchy in 1910 .