Son of the Conde de Bonfim, governor of Madeira 1827–28, and author of two books on West Africa (1861, 1864). The books contain several references to Madeira, where he lived as a child and which he revisited.
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Francisco Travassos Valdez's Six years of a traveller's life in Western Africa was published in London.
Francisco Travassos Valdez's 'Africa Occidental' was published in Lisbon.
