Engraving from 1886 showing the old, half abandoned fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá, then a Portuguese outpost at Ouidah, Dahomey (now Bénin). The tiny Portuguese enclave, administered from the Portuguese island colony of São Tomé and Príncipe hundreds of miles away, had no direct access to the nearby coast. The fort, a former slave-trading station, remained under Portuguese control up to 1961 when it was seized by the newly-independent Republic of Dahomey (now Benin). Published in the Portuguese magazine "O Ocidente" in 1886.