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  <dc:title>Safe Passage Agreement for Francis Galton</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Document agreeing to grant Francis Galton safe passage through Namaqualand, Damaraland and elsewhere [areas now lying within Namibia and South Africa], signed by Sir Henry Wakelyn Smith, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Cape of Good Hope, and John Montagu, Colonial Secretary of the Cape Colony. The text appears in English, Dutch and Portuguese.
The document is sealed in red wax at the bottom edge and accompanied by a larger wax seal kept in a separate metal enclosure.  The larger seal is the Great Seal of Queen Victoria, and was removed from another document by Smith.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>31 Jul 1850</dc:date>
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