We know from official records in Australia that Antonio Albress was born on Boa Vista, Cape Verde. We don't know where or exactly when: sometime in the 1840s. We do know Albress was not his birth last name, making finding records of him difficult.

Moving from Winter to tropical heat, I was quite sluggish getting used to the change. Adding a cold picked up from the 24 hour flight Australia to London, I sweated it out. Santiago is a little like the East and Southern Africa I travelled around in 1990, and nothing like it. It is its own unique place.