<Li> António Fernandes (he travalled to Monomotapa and beyond, exploring most of the present day Zimbabwe and possibly northeastern South Africa) </Li> <Li> Lourenço Marques (trader and explorer in East Africa) </Li> <Li> Francisco Álvares (missionary and explorer in Ethiopia) </Li> <Li> Gonçalo da Silveira (jesuit missionary, travalled up the Zambezi River to the capital of the Monomotapa which appears to have been the N'Pande kraal, close by the M'Zingesi River, a southern tributary of the Zambezi) </Li>

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