Portuguese claims to have burnt the relic further inflamed the resentment of the populace.

Both the Portuguese claim to Brazil and the Spanish claim to the Moluccas (see East Indies) depended on the treaty.

The Portuguese claims to the Shire Highlands were opposed both by the African Lakes Company and the missionaries.

On its provisions were based both the Portuguese claim to Brazil and the Spanish claim to the Moluccas (see East Indies).

North of the Zambezi, these Portuguese claims were opposed both the African Lakes company and the missionaries.

Its intent may have been to popularize and advance the Spanish case against the Portuguese claims.

It certainly does not in any way add to the merit of the Portuguese claim".

Portuguese territorial claims in Africa were challenged during the Scramble for Africa.

The act of "noting" Portuguese claims did not amount to accepting them, only that Portugal had made them.

To the south, the main opposition to Portuguese claims came from Cecil Rhodes, whose British South Africa Company was founded in 1888.