Enclosure No. 3 to Despatch No. 3 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 9 February 1860. The Enclosure is dated 25 November 1859. Received 6 March 1860. The Enclosure consists of despatches from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, to HBM's Ambassador a...
Enclosure No. 3 to Despatch No. 6 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 23 February 1860. The Enclosure is dated 16 December 1859. Received 21 March 1860. The Enclosure consists of a despatch from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, to HBM's Ambassador...
Enclosures Nos. 3-5 and 7-8 of Despatch No. 13 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 March 1860. The Enclosures are dated 4 October 1859-15 February 1860. Received 30 April 1860. The Enclosures include a report by Captain Felix Jones, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated ...
Enclosure No. 3 to Despatch No. 19 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 9 May 1860. The Enclosure is dated 14 March 1860. Received 13 June 1860. The Enclosure contains a despatch from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, to HBM's Ambassador at Constant...
Enclosures Nos. 3-4 to Despatch No. 24 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 7 June 1860. The Enclosures are dated 13 April-30 May 1860. Received 12 July 1860. The Enclosures include a report from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, concer...
Copy of a plan of the city of Bussorah [Basra]. The plan indicates vegetation, hydrology, and various buildings, including those of the British Residency, the French Consul and the Custom House. Also shown is the dock by the River Euphrates. The plan is attributed to G Walker, Lieutenant of Engin...
‘Sketch delineative of the ROUTES OF SLAVE-CARAVANS through Abyssinia to the shores of ARABIA.’
Scope & Content:
This sketch map shows the routes of ‘slave caravans’ [caravans of enslaved people] through Abyssinia [the Ethiopian Empire] to the shores of Arabia, specifically to Mocha, Hodeida [Al Hudaydah] and Loheia [Al Luhayyah]. The routes are indicated by red lines, and the sketch map also includes the ...
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to theSecretary of State for India, No. 264 of 1869, dated 19 August 1869, containingenclosures dated 2 May-31 July 1869. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relatingto an attack on Ras-ul-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] by Sali...
The Enclosures to Secret Letters Nos. 4-8 (Not included in the Volume)
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The ten folios consist of a note explaining that the enclosures to Letters Nos. 4-8 are not included in the volume, together with an abstract of the contents of the missing enclosures. The missing enclosures concern the following subjects: The relative advantages of different modes of communica...
Plan of the Summit of Marbut shewing the Houses and Forts recommended
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A sketch plan of the summit of Ras Marbut [Ra’s Marbut] with separate drawings of three elevation details (A, B and C). The plan shows the locations of the dwellings of various British Government and army officers and three sections labelled: ‘A. Battery & Tower about to be erected as th...