When in Belmonte he helped the local mission, providing from his own money for school supplies, food and clothing for their children and remuneration for the teacher.
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But later, in Belmonte, Silva Porto was in good spirits, although Paiva Couceiro did notice that his compound had barrels of gunpowder (which he, laughing, brushed-off as full of sand).
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In Belmonte, the most eastern Portuguese vanguard, Silva Porto experimented with exploring areas of the interior.
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The town of Kuito, founded by the Portuguese and named Belmonte at that time, was renamed Silva Porto.
Kuito is served by the Benguela railway that once connected the inland provinces to the coast.
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They later called it Silva Porto after António da Silva Porto who built his home embala Belmonte in the area.
In 1930, his parents travelled to Angola, a Portuguese colony at the time, where his father had been placed as a judge in the city of Silva Porto (present-day Kuito).
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