Plotted on to lithographed base map Geographic Section, General Staff, No. 2871, Sheet North C.36 37/B.36 37 titled 'Abyssinia', 2nd Edition, 1931 (a copy is filed at Maps MOD GSGS 2871). Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and gradient tints, railways, roads and tracks, telegraph lines, ...
Time and compass traverse along the Dadesa River in western Abyssinia from a point near Nekemti and extending 100 miles north-westwards to the confluence with the Abbai River. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, vegetation, roads and tracks and place names, and includes topographical and c...
Original list and typescript copy of barometer readings, with covering note. In tabular form, showing place name, aneroid number, reading, time, temperature, correction from diurnal curve, corrected reading, mean and point on sketch (filed at ABY/62/3). The spellings 'Lekemti' and 'Qezan' are ...
Typescript copy of original list, with covering note
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Covering note reads 'Copy sent to Director of Surveys Khartoum in October 1935 with request for closing value for Qezan.' Signed by '[illegible letter]B.'
'Amba Alagi'. Created by 'Lt. Papino - of 1st. Geogr[afico]. Mil[itare].' - War Office ledger
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Bromide copies of manuscript originals. Sheets numbered 1 (South) and 2 (North). Covers an area of approximately 5 miles radius around Amba Alagi in northern Abyssinia. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, form lines and hachures, roads and tracks, settlements and place names, and include...
'British Central Africa. (sheet "h") Blantyre district. I[ntelligence] D[ivision War Office] No 1092 (h) with MS. addns. & corrns.' - War Office ledger
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Produced as part of a projected eight-sheet series (a to h) of British Central Africa; only sheets f and h were published. Covers southern British Central Africa, including the southern part of Lake Chilwa, the Shire River valley and the protectorate capital Zomba. Portrays hydrology, relief b...
Sketch of Country East and West of Fort Alston (M'Wasis) British Central Africa'. Signed 'R. Skeffington Smyth Captain Coldstream Guards 19.2.98.
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Covers the land either side of the main caravan track between Kota Kota on the west shore of Lake Nyassa (via Fort Alston and Fort Jameson) to Kambweri in British South Africa Territory. Sheet depicts hydrology, relief by shading and spot heights, settlements and communications. The positioning...
Covers an area of southern British Central Africa and northern Portuguese East Africa extending approximately 180 miles north and east from the British Central Africa Administration Station at Zomba. Depicts the route from Zomba of the British contingent of the Anglo-Portuguese military expediti...
